Religion and the new technology

[Thats my opinion]

9. Interesting perspective.

We all start where we are, and what we receive as information is bound to be partial. And the brain only may deal with the stimuli that encounters it. To this end you are correct, that much of what religion has produced is manipulative. But the advocates of irreligion may have been just as manipulative. If I Google, "arguments for atheism" and what I get exhausts my research, i will come out at one place. If I do the same thing for "religion," the conclusion would move that way.. But what if faith is not just a matter of accumulating arguments (information) but has to do with experience? In I am confronted by Mystery, by grace, by being unconditionally loved, by purpose and meaning, by an ethical demand, I may have opened up a whole other way to believe or not believe. Information may not be the only way to access, or be accessed by, what is real. One may never encounter the holy on Google. This forum has often discussed whether there are other ways of knowing. Religion asserts there are other ways of knowing and being known.