(October 14, 2015 at 8:46 pm)dyresand Wrote: Religion used to be held up to the most important value in life until technology really started kicking into high gear.
That being said more people are filling up their free time with other things such as social media only gaming and gambling.
So when it comes down to it on the weekends there is more to do now than there was back then. You can stay home torrent a movie,
watch a good tv show, play a online game or even message people on facebook and other social media outlets.. Going on people who have
active youtube channels like mine (seriously need to post stuff regularly) really do not see religion as a important thing anymore as we are
as of now more connected through technology than any dogmatic belief. Technology and science not religion can go past dogmatic barriers
that separate us in whole and unite us unlike religion were its like okay you are a christian hate everyone else for not being one. So there religion dying the belief in god still there for now..
That's an interesting perspective.
I have often lamented that it is impossible to unite Atheists
the same way it is possible to unite Muslims,
because, as you say, Theism unites (while it also creates hatred for Atheism).
however, you are probably right:
For the first time,
people have something in common to unite them, in the use of technology,
with an efficacy that heretofore was unmatched,
except by religion.
Also, with the internet, has come a boom in pornography,
which is also uniting people, but not openly,
for example Josh Duggar has more in common now with a certain demographic of society,
that, had he been an adult, back in the 80s, he would not have had much in common with.
however, it is the USE of technology, and its distractions,
that they have in common;
it does not provide a creed or code of ethics;
people do not agree on social or moral views;
they simply utilize the same tools.
And technology, while it has united the globe in an unprecedented fashion,
simultaneously now divides individuals in a way that is likewise unprecedented.
