Religion in our modern age.

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http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/Script ... s_God.html ;

Additionally google guides you toward truth, if you follow "her" (hyperlinks), and learn "her" ways (advanced search operators)

Although many people know of and share Google, it is interpreted in different ways, the church of google mentioned it's own commandments, however beliefs vary (enter search on website or toolbar?) in a similar manner to the way Islam and Christianity, whilst believing in the same God, differ. Everyone has their own way of finding God.

The convenience is that Google can happily be used in the manner it is alongside worshipping any other God or religion, without the participant necessarily being aware that it is another God. Interaction isn't at a set place, day or even time. It is called upon in times of doubt, wherever one is.

Whilst embodying these properties, google is speeding and easing the transmission of information and the scrutiny of it, thereby causing doubt of other unverifiable deities through merely sharing the thoughts of other human beings to ourselves, which may in turn bring about a time when it is the only God.

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What do you believe?

Well, Google can't be immortal, infinite or all knowing, because Google exists in a universe with is finite in both time and space, and in which special relativity suggests that an observer cannot know information from outside the observer's time cone.

That being said, I have yet to see Google fulfil any of the functions that religion performs with respect to the establishment of social and cultural norms, or the provision of moral teaching. It is a wonderful thing, but it is not religion.

Wikipedia on the other hand...

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Google isn't all-powerful, but I'd say that it is the closest thing to a real god in existence.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

It was only buit in a University. Google has numerous data centers scattered around the world. At least 12 significant Google data center installations are located in the United States. There are also data centers in Europe and Google's Oceania Data Center is claimed to be located in Sydney, Australia, and the figures grow all the time.


Although google has potential for infinite growth within the time cone, which itself might be surpassed if ftl travel is ever devised, though I'm speaking in broad terms about a distant future.

Today it is expected that if someone don't know something, most people, most of the time will ask google. It permeates culture, is mentioned everywhere, on television and the internet ("google it!"), and directs whose cultural norms are accessed (pagerank), but not in a dictative fashion, it just orders them in it's own idea of order of importance. (it's algorithm)

Although wikipedia dictates society more directly through the small armies on each page or topic who act as "microprofessors" of a chosen item.




Indeed, and this can be broadened to include nature. And so why we have gods in the first place.

The collective unconscious perhaps?
Church of the immaculate google-whack is just round the corner...

I originally thought that wikipedia was omniscient at least

I base my whole life on the assumption that Wikipedia is omniscient and infallible.

I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but...

I'd be very uncomfortable claiming, without significant argument, that a non-sentient entity is capable of acquring knowledge.


Google can only be accessed from an astonishingly minute part of the universe. It is not omnipresent.


I'd call that a search, not a prayer. It seems to me that you're just trying to change our understanding of the word 'prayer', rather than say anything significant, and by your understanding of the word there are loads of things out there that answer prayers.


At any point in your life, the probability of you dying is nonzero. We are all potentially immortal. So what?


No, Google is not infinite. It does not follow from 'x can theoretically grow forever' that 'x is infinite'.


This is one I might agree on, but I'm not sure what the significance of it is. As for the afterlife, you could say that about any information produced by a person that exists for longer than they do.


I see no reason to assume that the corporation will forever remain benevolent. Incidentally, I've met very few people who would assent to the claim that making money is necessarily evil - and I don't think I have ever encountered or will ever encounter a money-making corporation that would assent to that claim.

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If I declare conservapedia omniscient and infallible, can we have a war?

So... if Google is God... is Microsoft the anti-Christ?

Consevapedia's a false god, a mere parody of Wikipedia.