Is the internet destroying religion?

[downbeatplumb]

Am I sounding old? :-)

No. Naive.


Libraries choose what books are stocked on the shelves. The internet is far more democratic. Once the seed of doubt is planted anyone is free to seek books which will expand the idea.

But the internet has very little in the way of quality control and anyone with an opinion can spout off and post misleading or wrong information, often backed up by others with similar wrong slanted ideas.
You see this with conspiracy theory "truthers" and other crackpots siting other crackpots to support their madness in a never ending spiral of dis-information.
This sort of thing also helps religions, my wife is a spiritualist and has found many a site that supports her idea of how the universe operates.
Anecdotal evidence is enough for some people.