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Originally Posted by cncracer
The internet provides an easy view of other ideas, views, morals, and cultures. It limits the narrow view of the controlling power groups, and organizations working to control humanity. A good example is Iran over the last few months. The access to the web has rendered is present government helpless to stop the challenges from the public. I think it is the first internet revolution which may force a government to change its rules and leaders.
Religiously speaking I think it exposes the flaws in religion when the myths can’t hold up under the mass of information available at the touch of a finger.
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Respectfully, I disagree on that last point: religion is strengthened, not diluted, by the unrestricted flow of ideas and information.
Anyhow, to address the original post:
I feel that the Internet will be a crucible, burning away the outdated dogma of days past and introducing a new form of religion -- the religion of
information, where
ideas are our gods and
knowledge our symbol of faith.
I think that the future is bright for humanity, and that the Internet will bring about profound changes in the way we percieve our world
and hold our beliefs.
What is religion when information
has no gods?
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