Does the internet render religion obsolete?

That’s the thing I’m reading now.

‘Give Me That Online Religion’ by Brenda E. Brasher.

Interesting quote about the internet on the first page itself.

“… the qualities of the internet that enabled more voices than ever before to speak in public space also opened up public and private space as never before to pornographers, terrorists, and pedophiles. The electronic terrain of cyberspace quickly became overrun by those who wrote the fastest and most provocatively in dominant languages, not necessarily those who thought most deeply, or who possessed great insight or experience…” (Brasher 2004: 1)

Never quite considered how the internet could be a private space. But now am thinking through it. Very often we talk about the internet at as public space. But I suppose it could be a very private space as well. Like having the corner cubicle in a room of ten people. Thinking.

It raises an interesting thought toward the first chapter: What does the internet render obsolete?

In not so many words, does the internet render religion obsolete?

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