RE: Is the internet destroying religion?
August 13, 2014 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2014 at 12:31 pm by Mr Greene.)
It isn't the information per se. Rather it's the ability to communicate anonymously. This allows people with doubts (that are usually instigated by the more rabid believers) to know that they aren't alone when society presents a homogeneous mass of of probable believers.
We can out-number believers 20:1 and yet remain near invisible whereas some believers will dominate any group with the inability to shut up.
Of course there is the hypothesis that we're reinstating the Egyptian beliefs in writing on walls and worshiping cats...
We can out-number believers 20:1 and yet remain near invisible whereas some believers will dominate any group with the inability to shut up.
Of course there is the hypothesis that we're reinstating the Egyptian beliefs in writing on walls and worshiping cats...
Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?-Esquilax
Evolution - Adapt or be eaten.
