I haven’t been able to find a link to the story yet, but Today Tonight did a special tonight on ‘Living Dolls’ – dolls which look so life-like they have grown in popularity…and with some interesting buyers.
Of the three buyers that I saw (since I was ducking in and out of the kitchen during the story) there was a woman who had lost her baby child, a grandmother whose grandchild moved overseas and a man who lost his mother. When the mother who had lost her baby child was asked the question, “Don’t you think that some people would find this uncomfortable?”, her response was, “Well, when people get to see how life-like she is then I’m sure they’d fall in love as well” (or something to that effect). The journalists response was classic post-modern philosophy at it’s best, “Well, neither her nor her doll are hurting anybody so in that context it’s ok.”
Of more interest was a man who had recently lost his mother – and sought ‘companionship’ and a ‘better quality of life’ through relating to adult life-like female dolls. He then maneuvered this adult-sized doll from the kitchen table to an outside setting by hanging her to a nail post to keep her upright.
Through it all I was shaking my head and wondering how to react. Here are a few rough thoughts:
- It’s clear from these videos that humans were created for relationship. Some of us are awkward at creating and maintaining them, but we were created for relationships nonetheless
- In a sinful and broken world some of us will seek to fulfill our relationship needs in either sinful or strange ways
- The Church is God’s wonderful gift to us by which we may enter into strong and close fellowship with each other to meet our relationship needs
- I pray that our church would be so loving and united that we would be able to reach out to those who have lost loved ones and are seeking healing
That’s all I can think of for now. Any others?
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