By Radhika Ramana Dasa
This is the age of internet.People are spending more and more time online. They are emailing, socializing, chatting, downloading, uploading, sight-seeing, blogging. And of course they are searching. In fact to perform all the previous tasks, one needs the help of a search-engine like Google. Google is so famous today for helping people find something on the internet that it is almost synonymous with a search-engine. Phrases like “google it” meaning “find it” are common. Recently as I was talking to some of my students, I asked them to think of someone who could supply anything and everything. Some indeed mentioned God; most mentioned Google. This got me thinking and I started some research. Indeed, I found The Church of Google on the internet. These people believe that Google is closest to the concept of God and their religion is officially called Googlism. In fact when you want to search for something and after typing it out, when you want to hit the “search” button, instead you find the “pray” button. The connection is obvious. When you want to approach God you pray and so when you approach Google, you should pray. What’s more? They even have nine proofs that justify how Google is God.