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In the last section, I looked at how The Internet, as a natural medium for sharing information and emotions, can touch spiritual aspects of our lives by association with others. In this section, I examine how The Internet changes lives; something that most religions are in the market to do! The extent to which the Internet sweeps us up and carries us forward, engaging our hearts and minds in the way that the great religions proclaim that God should, is therefore the subject of this section.

In the last section, I looked at how The Internet, as a natural medium for sharing information and emotions, can touch spiritual aspects of our lives by association with others. In this section, I examine how The Internet changes lives; something that most religions are in the market to do! The extent to which the Internet sweeps us up and carries us forward, engaging our hearts and minds in the way that the great religions proclaim that God should, is therefore the subject of this section.

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 argued that in theology, God has something to do with knowledge, enlightenment and truth – and that The Internet is now also a crucial provider of such understandings. In this section, I examine the religious tenet that God is integral to everything we do – God is Man – and therefore that God is inevitably to some extent The Internet too. And the more that The Internet becomes a part of our lives, the more that God can be seen as associated with it.