How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion

pitchpipe (708843) points out a study highlighted by MIT's Technology Review, which makes the bold claim that "Using the Internet can destroy your faith. That's the conclusion of a study showing that the dramatic drop in religious affiliation in the U.S. since 1990 is closely mirrored by the increase in Internet use," and writes "I attribute my becoming an atheist to the internet, so what the study is saying supports my anecdote. If I hadn't been exposed to all of the different arguments about religion, etc., via the internet I would probably just be another person who identifies as religious but doesn't attend services. What do you think? Have you become more religious, less religious, or about the same since being on the internet? What if you've always had it?"

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Knowledge

[Anonymous Coward]

The Antichrist

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[peragrin]

great now the christians are going to call the internet the tree of knowledge and get it declared forbidden in their quest for religious zealotry.

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[mellon]

Christian zealots, you mean. So they will drop off the Internet, and stop hassling us. Sounds like a win. I jest, but only partially.

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[ArcadeMan]

What do they think about Apple computers?

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[WolfWithoutAClause]

Let me give you the view of a non Mormon:

Mormonism is bonkers!

You're talking about a religion created by a convicted con man that involves him 'reading' invisible gold tablets that nobody else could see from within a hat, and mistranslating an Egyptian funerary parchment aka 'The Book of Abraham' that doesn't say what he said it says; and we know that because it was tracked down and translated for real.

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[Kremmy]

If you put two people in a garden, tell them not to do something, then have your servant come in and pressure them to do it anyway, that's entrapment.

Let the games begin

[Anonymous Coward]

So probably the biggest time-waster in human history is being supplanted by a new biggest time-waster ...

but the remainder...

[Anonymous Coward]

Are a bunch of noisy cunts who pretty much make up for the difference by never shutting the fuck up.

Re:unfiltered information will make people THINK!

[taiwanjohn]

Maybe this is just a clever ruse to trick fundamentalists into avoiding the internet, to reduce the troll count.

The internet does what?

[SpankiMonki]

So the internet is causing people to reject their silly belief that "there is a god" and replace it with an equally silly belief that "there is no god".

Get behind me, Internet!