We commonly associate ourselves with our religion and we find it part of our identity or soul, so I'm curious to know if by losing our identity to technology (i.e; cell phones, laptops) that we as a society as a result are becoming less religious. In the times of our forefathers, many activities and forms of entertainment were religion-centric, with many of the stories and a great amount of literature being religious myths that were taken from the holy books such as the bible and then expanded upon by the present day culture. In today's society, religion doesn't have as big of an impact as it did in past years. Today, people are consumed with watching television, playing on their computers, or utilizing social media so it asks the question: are we losing our religious identities to technology?
This is a difficult question to answer, and to do so, one must define an identity. In the simplest terms, your identity is who you are as a person, your beliefs, your passions, your personality. So in theory, it would be expected that technology could enhance your sense of identity by being connected to people with similar beliefs that would have never been connected before. But in actuality, people become so intertwined with their celebrity gossip or hunger games fandom that that stop being present in the actual world, choosing instead to live in a virtual world. For that reason, I believe that people are actually losing their identities, making religion less of a factor in their life. With losing their identity, people slowly start to lose the components of their identity that make them who they are, including their religious beliefs.
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