Secular Café: Will the internet kill religion?

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Will the internet kill religion? May 26th 2012, 19:43 I doubt it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...gLnU_blog.html Quote: Last year, Christian apologist Josh McDowell made a remarkable claim about the Internet, stating that "the abundance of knowledge, the abundance of information, will not lead to certainty; it will lead to pervasive skepticism... the Internet has leveled the playing field [giving equal access to skeptics]." He said that like it was a bad thing. ... ...Church used to be a one-way street. The pastor fed you information and that was that. The Internet upended that model and gave people the opportunity to talk back. Now, they can weigh their own arguments on matters of faith with that of people who disagree. Many Christians won't go actively searching for dissenting views, of course, but what about doubters? What about young Christians who aren't sure they accept what the church teaches them? They'll be able to come to their own conclusions and they won't necessarily be the same ones their parents and pastors want them to adopt. This is why atheists love the Internet. We can tell Christians the emperor's not wearing any clothes. We can question the dogma they've simply accepted all their lives. We can expose religious frauds. We can explain the many unfortunate consequences of unquestioned belief. The Internet is blind faith's worst nightmare. The genie's not going back in the bottle. Religious leaders should be very afraid.

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