Lecture delivered by Mike Kent
Interesting point: For religious communities, the Internet is an outreach programme.
Definition, Religion online:
Using the Internet to provide services and information. When you want to know, e.g. when your church service is on.
Definition, Online Religion:
Practicing your religious devotion online.
Remark about the Gutenberg bibles: there are actually 48 (singles and complete double volumes) examples remaining today, after these bibles were initially printed in the mid-fifteenhundrets. German quality...
This was the start of commercial printing, handing out new examples in editions rather than one-by-one, each hand written. As a result some control went out of the hands of the church. It was no secret knowledge for a chosen few anymore. However, it was still the latin version and latin was the language of the church and high society.
I wonder if the turmoil going on with translating the bible into English and the harsh punishment that followed these actions initiated the epoche of enlightenment, also known as modernity.
The killing of William Tyndale (a reformist, challenging religious authority by making a book with a secret code inaaccessible toi the majority readable) happened in 1536, about 150 years before the brake of the Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason.
Today Religious authority is challenged again. This time reform seems to come through the Internet. The Internet can be a challenge for traditional authority. We have seen this with journalism and we have seen it with politics.
PIU The Pink Invisible Unicorn - great atheism ironie
...and by the way - some believe creation wasn't made through God - it was the flying Spaghetti Monster (lol).
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