And the Church discovered the Internet

"It opens a new era. Internet must be evangelized. " "Take the word of God in digital continent, turning to non-believers." With these words, Benedict XVI urges priests in the Day of Social Communications (Read article www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2010/01/23/news/papainternet-2050231 ). The Pope's invitation to participate in social networks and bring the word of God in the great digital continent, is a sign of how the church tries to renew itself to bringing the community of believers. From the time the polls speak of empty churches, occasional practitioners, hours of religion deserted, the crisis of vocations in a society confused and syncretic where there is room for everyone, believers, devout, agnostics, atheists, nihilists, esoteric, neo-paganism, mystics, lovers of new age (post today), followers of the metaphysics of martyrdom, creators of para-religions DIY and worshipers of a generic God made ​​in his image and likeness. Everyone down to who and what to believe relying on beliefs that between spirit and matter are one of their unreleased balance: issues paratrascendentali where God is probably the only one absent. So, between science and belief, Eastern spirituality and archaic practices of local or imported, the global market offers everything from the merchandise most original and sometimes blasphemous that wink at the Divine to religious trinkets and disposable. Meanwhile come online archives of wisdom accessible to all without the filter media, with the responses of philosophers, artists, spiritual leaders, scientists and Nobel laureates to the urgent question of what religion is God? Enjoy this discovery.

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