What effect will virtual reality computers have on religion?

Seridee asked:


I’m talking about the technology that many sci-fi writers dream about. A computer with no monitor, keyboard or mouse but one that plugs into a persons head and completely immerses them in a virtual world so that all their sensory perception is simulated. The internet will become reality and people will be able to live their entire lives online. Their organic bodies will be just meat and organs that supports mental energy. We will have this technology one day. The key is to learn the language in which the brain communicates and early experiments with lab rats have shown promise. Do you think this will be the next great stage in human development?

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12 Responses to “What effect will virtual reality computers have on religion?”

  1. Full Immersion Virtual Reality

    Nope

    man is to self centered to allow such freedom . They would price it far above the ablity for man to buy it .

  2. Full Immersion Virtual Reality

    Well the beast of Revelation will have religious people worshiping an image. But the church will be out of here during the tribulation.

  3. Full Immersion Virtual Reality

    I pray that won’t ever be the case so computers could be religion’s biggest friend

  4. Full Immersion Virtual Reality

    Although it sounds cool, I can’t honestly swallow the idea of people willing to submit their lives to a virtual reality.

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    I doubt it. It would require alot more funding then it currently has now and would be too expensive for many people to afford it. Might alter the riches perception and lifestyle but the majority will remain the same.

  6. virtual reality

    I don’t know how religion will react. I suppose they will say the device is from Satan.

    I wouldn’t want to be trapped inside such a device but I would love to be able to use it to take a virtual vacation. I am already attempting to do what I can currently do using Google Maps Street View, Google Earth and MS Live Maps Birds Eye View.

  7. Full Immersion Virtual Reality

    One problem: If we access the internet through our brain, then what will happen when we get a virus and the comp crashes? And second of all, how do you print documents to hand in for school or work? And lastly, isn’t that approaching The Matrix a little too closely? I don’t want to have the bus driver turning into Agent Smith when I’m taking the bus home.

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    the world will come to a end before this happens. It will not effect religion at all.

  9. Full Immersion Virtual Reality

    UhhHuhh the technogical singularity!!!!!!!!! I am eagerly waiting for it to arrive,hopefully before I die. You do realize that this may be the key to immortality? Have you been reading Ray Kurzweil’s books? Kurzweil predicts the end of the human race as we know it soon after the singularity arrives. I knew some of the religious nutjobs would react the way they are doing to this question. All I have to say is don’t stand in my way if I want to do it,it’s none of your business if I want to be first inline. I’d like to hear more on what your thoughts are on this.

  10. Full Immersion Virtual Reality

    That will never happen. We are in the end times and it shouldnt take that many more years for all prophecy to be fulfilled. And to the person who mentioned ‘rapture’, the word ‘rapture’ is not in the bible and you won’t be going anywhere, if you believe that, you are a prime target for anti-christ(satan) when he gets here pretending to be Jesus Christ.

  11. Kip Sprout says:

    I love your take on this, could not agree more.

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