
Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet
Filmmaker Werner Herzog asks: “Does the internet dream of itself?”
Read MoreFilmmaker Werner Herzog asks: “Does the internet dream of itself?”
Read MoreThe slogan “Don’t be evil” prompts questions Google’s chairman seems ill-equipped to answer.
Read MoreIt is patronizing to reduce religion to “ethics” or “values.”
Read MoreRD bloggers have rightly asked the question of the depth of the “piety” of the Tsarnaevs. That too misses a vital point. I do not for a moment discount the sincerity of the feelings for Islam by the Tsarnaev brothers. But, what Islam was the object of those feelings? I would offer that it was for an “Internet Islam”—for an abstract, compact, easily rendered Islam, fed by the representations flowing from out of the ether!
Read MoreThe theory that access to the internet will be the undoing of organized religion has resurfaced. But do the data show anything like this?
Read MoreWhat is it about rage that pervades so much thinking about Islam? Start by picking up the latest issues of Time and Newsweek—America’s airport reading—and talking to Google.
Read More40,000 Hasidim vs. Internet.
Read MoreHumanity may be a mystery, but what about the human who virtually enters a spec of dust and is able to learn the mysteries of dustness? Doesn’t this kind of leap require us to adopt a kind of awe and reverence for the mysteries outside the human as well?
Read MoreThe Gainesville event might be the final culmination of the age of hijackers, where a small group’s manipulation of a powerful vehicle has far-reaching disastrous effects. Only in this case, the vehicle is the Qur’an, not an airplane. And the manipulation need only be virtual. Never has book burning been so effective without even occurring. Symbolic actions on the internet and their consequences in the real world now occur almost simultaneously. And the threat of a symbolic gesture and an actual one become one and the same.
Read MoreThe Vatican’s Web site considers a patron saint of the internet, Muslims debate divorce by text, and Jews pray by email; How does the inevitable transition to the virtual realm affect religious experience across the world?
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