IS THE INTERNET REPLACING GOING TO CHURCH?

[Jamastiene]

67. Well, people who actually are religious, I would imagine can go to church

online.

I am not religious, but if I ever did decide to try the more liberal Christianity, which doesn't seem so bad to me in comparison, or any other religion besides right wing conservative Christianity, the only way I would be able to go to church would be to go online with a pastor and a church from some other place besides where I live. Where I live, it's all hellfire and damnation and every church billboard is some anti-gay slogan. They have made themselves perfectly clear where I stand in my hometown.

I would imagine the internet doesn't have anything to do with whether or not people who believe still believe. They may be disabled or any have any other number of reasons why going to church online might be easier. So, church attendance may be more flexible with some churches nowadays. That doesn't necessarily mean there are less people who are religious.

Then again, maybe my perspective is warped because there is no shortage of Christians where I live. I think they have gotten more religious here than it used to be, even. It's in your face even when you go to the grocery store to get your groceries or in the waiting room at a doctor appointment. It's that kind that makes me cringe, the uber right wing anti-gay bunch. The number of churches here has exploded since the late 90s as well, more than double the amount that were here when I was younger.