1. Positive
- Methods of preaching-radio, television, internet, print media
- Transport-air, water, rail, roads etc
- Verifies miracles which win people to God.
- Prolongs life thro’ modern medicine.
- Creates a conducive environment for religion eg-buildings-church
- Increases food supply to religionists.
- Makes the visually impaired to read- spectacles, walk-crutches, hearing-hearing aids
- Helps religionists to predict weather patterns for religious meetings.
- Helps to proof biblical teachings e.g. floods of Noah, Existence of Jesus’ grave.
- Because information technology offers people the opportunity to associate with anyone in the world with access to the Internet in a way that far surpasses in immediacy and intimacy anything possible through the telephone or "snail- mail"—through email, video conferencing, websites, chat rooms, and so forth—it is now possible to withdraw from the community defined by a locality, a geographically defined subculture, or a nation-state, and to find (or lose) oneself in the greater culture that exists through the interactions of persons on the Internet.
- Although it is not true that the Internet has spawned "virtual" communities as an entirely new phenomenon—they have always existed through newsletters, journals, conferences, and the like—it has certainly made their activities more widespread and the frequency of their interactions much greater.
- Whatever interest people have, there is almost certainly an Internet community that shares that interest. Through online discussions, websites, mass-circulation email, and so forth, such groups establish both their mutual interest and, usually, considerable interpersonal rapport that spills over into wider aspects of life. Participants will commonly share their joys and sorrows, support one another, and exercise general pastoral care for the group. This phenomenon has led some to suggest that the World Wide Web may facilitate the generation of a new kind of religious community in which mutual care and even worship arise within a virtual world rather than geographically close localities or through meeting eclectically in physical buildings.
2. Negative
- Promotes secularization through fighting religious claims e.g. miracles, virgin birth.
- Promotes industrialization which deviates religious people’s ideas through commercialization and occupying people’s ideas.
- Led to pollution which has led to diseases affecting people of God.
- Affected dressing which is enacted by holy texts- modern ways
- Led to bad morals in the religious society due to mass media e.g pornographies
- Has led to spoiling of people of God’s noun. E.g. Some nude snaps in internet of crucial people.
- Reduced the number of people willing to be religious specialists due to the demand for modern jobs brought out by technology.
- It is often suggested that computer technology has made human beings less sociable or neighborly. Now that people can choose like-minded conversational partners from anywhere in the world, they are supposedly less minded to socialize with their neighbors. It is not obvious that this is true. Computer technology is as ambiguous as was the television, the telephone, or the motorcar.
- Computer communities do, however, break national boundaries without the need for expensive travel, and it is certainly arguable that greater international fraternization will reduce rather than increase the long-term threat of war. What is not clear is the extent to which having the world as one's neighbor will make one less able to negotiate tolerantly with those physical neighbors who surround one every day, or whether exposure only to those who agree will make one less tolerant of those who do not.
Wilfykil answered the question on March 13, 2019 at 09:32