Philosophy

In a post-modern age, perhaps it matters less to us than previously whether or not our particular God exists. To be preoccupied with those issues that theologians are concerned with may in fact matter more to us than whether or not, in absolute terms, the existence of God can be proved. The position of contemporary intellectuals is often that they are happy to explore these issues as if God exists whether or not God really does so!

In the last section, I looked at ways that The Internet can fulfil our deepest spiritual needs; arguably sometimes doing this more adequately than mainstream religions. In this section, I wish to consider how God relates to truth and knowledge and how the better comprehension and feeling of universal citizenship that The Internet can provide brings us nearer to what has traditionally been meant by God.

The first thing to say about the nature of God is that our perception of God will not be what God is. The Internet to some extent shares this characteristic of not being what we take it for. It is not what we see on our screens. So the question, 'What is the Internet?' raises some of the same issues as the question, 'What is God?' Like God, it is exceedingly difficult to describe and encompass.