This comic from ASBO Jesus has been bouncing around my mind for the past few days.

Most people do care about social justice; however, so often our indignation turns into paralysis due to the magnitude of the world’s problems. Personally, I’ve found it much easier to be incensed about how bad off the world is rather than do something about it. With that said, when I found The Hub today I admit I was a bit skeptical.

I cannot give a wholesale recommendation of The Hub, most of the content is quite graphic, both visually and aurally. Consider yourself warned.

The Hub is put out by Peter Gabriel’s (yes, the singer/songwriter) group The Witness. After watching a few of the videos on the site I’m wishing they were fictitious. Spending ten minutes viewing videos about the US government’s treatment of prisoners is more than enough to convince me we have some serious problems.

I’ve often wondered about the effectiveness of campaigns like The Hub. For me, I now know more about torture, but will I do anything about it? Hopefully, but what?

Do you think sites like The Hub have the ability to change the way people think, or do they just “preach to the choir?” Or more specifically, how have you been challenged by things you’ve seen or read on the internet? Should Christians even be viewing sites like this? After all it’s quite graphic. Or do we stick with what Godtube labels social justice?