virus: Religion and the Digital Age

Lena Rotenberg (lrr@netkonnect.net)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:38:42 -0400


http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/13206.html

Religion and the Digital Age

Why do we so slavishly venerate religion? Is it always a force for good in
the world? Doesn't religious dogma often conflict with reason and progress?
Shouldn't we view it with the same questioning, sometimes skeptical, eye we
fix on other wealthy, powerful institutions?

But we don't. In an age of cynicism and doubt -- about politics, media,
values -- religion gets a free ride.

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Lena Rotenberg
lrr@netkonnect.net