Is the internet destroying religion?

[Michael]

Oh, don't get me started on YouTube, Blackout. Look at the video you posted. Where's the research and scholarship? Instead we get 'one thing I heard about was...'. It's a recipe for hearsay and rumour, and that's so far away from good scholarship.It's just someone sharing their uninformed opinion with others. I reckon the Internet, if this is a prime example, will lead to the first generation who are less well educated than the previous generation. All that is left is the veneer of education because people can use the medium which used to be the preserve of the educated. There's just so much utter uninformed dross. At least with books you had to have done a modicum of research to get a publisher to take you seriously. I do seriously worry about the next generation. I don't see them getting the depth of education of my generation, because at the moment people don't know how to get to the quality stuff among all this other utter guff that is posted.

Rant over

P.S. But for balance, yes there is fine stuff on YouTube as well. The TED videos are a great collection of thoughtful and thought - provoking video. I'm just being grumpy tonight.