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RE: The internet: A place Religion comes to die
April 2, 2012 at 9:24 am
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Opinions, fantastic, well then. I think that religion was stillborn, and any means of mass communication was likely to help make this increasingly obvious. Books and literacy did the same, but the effect was limited (along the lines of the limitations of access and literacy, predictably). Now most of us can read, and those that can't can youtube, and all of this information is just a click of the mouse away.
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RE: The internet: A place Religion comes to die
April 3, 2012 at 7:13 am
(April 2, 2012 at 9:13 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Hey Grimesy, I could be wrong but I think you never did post about your last day on that course? I enjoyed reading it.
Oh yeah - sorry. In the end I didn't go . . no excuses, just couldn't be bothered - it felt like a waste of an evening when I could be watching soap operas. I did give it a fair crack over the preceding weeks though. The same church is doing another Alpha course starting next week. They're calling it Alpha course "lite" and holding it on a Tuesday morning with just tea and biscuits in lieu of a meal, with each session only lasting an hour and a half. Should I be cheeky and tell them I'm going to come again, with new, even more probing questions to pose them ?
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RE: The internet: A place Religion comes to die
April 3, 2012 at 7:58 am
Naaah, I wouldn't bother. You did your bit and fought the good fight already.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
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RE: The internet: A place Religion comes to die
April 3, 2012 at 11:01 am
The internet is what I used less than a year ago to find out books to read/discussions etc. If it wasn't for the internet I doubt I would have been able to deconvert anytime soon. I think that Christianity/other religions will continue to take losses due to the fact that information is more free. I mean just look at how much louder atheism has become in the past 20 years.
I think more and more people, young people especially, will come to reject Christianity due to the open resources on the web. Remember, the catholic church dominated partially due to ignorance/illiteracy/information suppression. It is a lot harder to control information thanks to google <3.
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RE: The internet: A place Religion comes to die
April 3, 2012 at 11:18 am
I believe the internet has aided us in this war against organized religion, however it didn't make me an Atheist. I was supposedly a christian when i was younger, roughly around five years old. However, as soon as i could read, i began reading books on greek mythology. I also became aware of how fake everything seemed, these people leading their "perfect" lives, it was only a shell. I slowly developed into the Atheist i am now, trying to rid my area of theists.. However, some people would deny the sun existed if the bible said so. >_>
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RE: The internet: A place Religion comes to die
April 3, 2012 at 12:19 pm
(April 2, 2012 at 9:24 am)Rhythm Wrote: Opinions, fantastic, well then. I think that religion was stillborn, and any means of mass communication was likely to help make this increasingly obvious. Books and literacy did the same, but the effect was limited (along the lines of the limitations of access and literacy, predictably). Now most of us can read, and those that can't can youtube, and all of this information is just a click of the mouse away.
Literacy had an enormous impact on religion, though, as did the printing press. Without Gutenberg printing up thousands of shitty bibles you could never have had a shmuck like Martin Luther telling people to read their bible. Hand-written books were very expensive and would have been out of reach of all but the nobility. But even publishing books requires an investment which automatically limits what gets published. The internet is cheap.
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