Is the internet destroying religion?

[CapnAwesome]

As a theist, the internet is a huge blessing. Since many atheists (well the ones I have met online which is a rather small yet vocal subset of atheists; the ones offline I have met in person have been quite intelligent) focus on the websites with little academic validity...if that is all a nonbeliever is exposed to, it makes the job of converting them to a particular faith much easier. If theists can beat you at your own game, then you have nothing.

Atheist forums is definitely far from an academic website and most of the Theists on here consistently look like idiots. Only smug self possessed theists think that you are beating us at anything. Plus one look at de-conversion statistics (http://www.pewforum.org/2012/10/09/nones-on-the-rise/ ) shows that the number of Atheists, Agnostics and those identifying as no religion have gone through a huge increase almost directly starting with the internet age. So yeah, the internet does not help your cause.