People have always been able to talk about religion wherever and to who ever they want, and since the internet it ”has indeed transformed religious communication by making possible a far greater array of visual and aural symbols than was possible in the early days…” and since these visual images, people have been uploading many videos to communicate their thoughts and views on certain events, an example of this would be this video, called ‘Monkeys Talk about Religion.’ Where someone created a video about their views of religion using a satirical animation to grab the audience’s attention and give a different twist.
The internet is a vast medium that people can use to express their thoughts and feelings on whatever they want, but what is so important about this technological advancement is that “the internet does not generate religion, only people do.” The public are now the ones putting up their own content and for the first time we do not have to watch whatever is played on the television. This does cause some controversy however, since the public are able to upload anything they want onot the computer, there is now inappropriate content involving religion and there has now been a term coined “cyber-religion” which “refers to the presence of religious organizations and religious activities in cyberspace.” This has now become a problem because the more religion is talked about on the internet in negative, satirical ways, the more it will impede the way religion used to be; we will lose the value and sacredness that religion once had as we continue to destroy the historical meanings.
Sources: Morten T. Hojsgaard and Margit Warburg. Religion and Cyberspace. Routledge 2005.
