Today’s question is both very specific and very general. Today’s question is specific because it focuses on religion’s influence on you, and it is very general because of focuses on how any of your online activities could be influenced by religion. Do you consider religion to have a great influence in your online activities?

For this question, my focus is not on whether or not you are biased in any form against anyone else or any specific religion. My focus is also not on whether or not such influence is right or wrong. My focus in this question is to see whether or not you consider the existence of religion to have any kind of an influence in your online activities.

How being religious can influence your online activities

If you are religious, you may be focusing on applying your religious principles to the online world too. You may also be acting in ways so that your own religious beliefs are supported more through your online activities. Some examples of this could be to avoid going to sites that hate religious people, to blog or have biased opinions against specific religious people because of your own religious affiliation, and to comment on different places and on almost any topic with information that is derived because of your own understanding of your religious beliefs. Any of these examples or any of their variations show that religion may indeed have some kind of an influence on your online activities.

How being non-religious can also result in religion influencing your online activities

You could be anti-religion, and may actually be doing things online that, on purpose, go against the idea of religion, and thus religion, even though you do not believe in it, may have some influence on your online activities. Therefore, even though you may not be religious, you may be doing something to show, on purpose, some anti-religion things. Some examples of this could be to defend such ideas such as gay rights, abortion, etc. Regardless of the validity of any of these ideas, defending or being against such and any similar ideas shows that you are doing something online because of religion’s influence; even doing things against what any religion says means that religion is doing something to prompt and warrant some action or thought from you.

Is there a middle ground?

There is a middle ground where you may not allow, or may do your best to make sure, that religion has no influence on your online activities. This may involve a few things, including not being biased in any religious belief and by considering all the sides of the story in their equal fairness, by not always defending your religious belief simply because it is your religious belief, and by simply not looking at things with the concept of being religious or non-religious as a guiding principle. Thus, it is possible to be online and not have any influence from religion on any of your online activities. It is very hard for many people, and because of its hard nature such a middle ground can be considered impossible by many people. However, such a ground is possible. You can be as influenced or biased as you want, but you can hide from such influence or bias because of religion from your online activities completely. In my view, it all comes down to you, and whether or not you want such a middle ground.

Regardless of what the influence may be or whether such an influence is right or wrong, do you consider religion to have any influence on your online activities?

So, do you consider religion to have any influence in your online activities?

Please let me know what you think. Thank you.