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Are you for reals? Technology seen as a threat to religion

In a recent report, “Apple Products Trigger “Religious Reactions” Like Cults”, the relationship between technology and religion is explored. We might not realize it, but the way that Apple products are able to manipulate our lives is underestimated most of the time. We’d like to think we are in control of technology. However, we are merely muppets of technology. The successful branding of Apple and its ability to create a cult-like sentiment is recognized even by the Pope!

 

“Pope Benedict XVI has been documented stating that technology consumption is a big threat to religion and the Roman Catholic church. He made sure to remind everyone one Sunday morning that technology cannot replace God”. For us atheists, comparing technology to a religion might not have so many implications, but the gravity of the issue is that we are dominated and controlled by technology. We live and breathe it. Despite a growing need to embrace our inner techy, the recognition of the reliance on technology should still remain.

2 comments


1 akpeepre { 04.09.12 at 11:47 pm }

The church has always viewed technology as a threat to the domination of their ideologies from the renaissance until present. I am curious if the pope is suggesting that this “cult like following” is a bad thing or if he just views it as a threat to his significance. The only apple product I own is a cracked ipod so I cannot relate to the similarities between the two but see what you are getting at…


2 ludmila { 04.12.12 at 10:41 pm }

I agree, but it goes both ways. We are kind of technology puppets, but its not like we don’t benefit! But it’s definitely important that we all recognize just how much control technology has over us

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