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Google My Religion: Unraveling the Gordian Knot of Religious, Moral, and Political Entanglement

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“One word: Google. The questions have always been at hand, but now the answers are within our grasp,” said former Pentecostal preacher Jerry DeWitt who became an atheist after 25 years of pastoral services. Notwithstanding the know-it-all reputation of Google Search, cognitive psychologist Tom Stafford has cautioned that “the Internet can give us the illusion of knowledge, making us think we are smarter than we really are.” Is it possible to unravel the Gordian knot of religious, moral, and political entanglement?

All religions , arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

—Albert Einstein

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