(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.
