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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Internet Religious Worshipping: A Ticket To Hell?
By VictorM: This Washington Post article covers how many people, from all kinds of religions, are looking for new ways to worship and are finding it just a website away:The Internet has become a hub of religious worship for millions of people around the world. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Sikhs and people of other faiths turn regularly to Web sites to pray, meditate and gather in "virtual" houses of worship graphically designed to look like the real thing. Some sites offer rites from baptism to confession to conversion to Judaism... For many cyber-worshipers, online religious life conducted at home or in an Internet cafe has replaced attendance at traditional churches, temples, mosques and synagogues... The boom in online religion comes at a time when people, especially the young, are questioning traditional institutions... "Old mechanisms of religious authority are changing,"... "There is more emphasis on individualism. We want to decide for ourselves."Any breakaway from most organized religions sound like a good idea to me, but this notion of "emphasis on individualism", well, I got news for you: according to the current fogies who control your after-life, your desire to spend your money elsewhere other than in their institutions mean you're going to suffer the same fate as I am: you're going to hell!
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This brings up the interesting question of whether God routinely concerns himself with individual souls, or rather with groups — religious, ethbic, community and/or national.
If God is love, then God resides within the individual or does not.
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If God is love, then God resides within the individual or does not.
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