I'm probably adding to their publicity by doing this, but I can't help but put in my two cents.
Immersion Digital, LLC has released an electronic bible, which, it boasts, contains thousands of digital videos, images, and sounds, to accompany the text of the bible. Its advertisement of the bible is in the video below.
This project and its product remind me of the only admirable thing about religion: its adaptability. This electronic bible is nothing but a 21st-century version of the architecture, decoration, and music that religion has produced for centuries. It is a 21st-century version of Gothic cathedrals of gargantuan proportions (compared to huts of the time, of course), with their imposing columns, impressive stained-glass windows, and the intricate masses complete with the light, smoke, and odor of incense and candles. It is a 21st-century version of a belittling mosque with a lead-covered dome glowing in the sun, and a minaret piercing the heavens and calling 'the little people' to prayer. It is a continuation of the theatrical nature of religion, which has given it an edge over people's better reason, who, in awe of the novelty and grandness of religious institutions, and further desensitized and tamed by the images, sounds, and odors of religious rites, have foolishly followed it over the centuries, ever forgetful of the fact that such projects were conceived, built, and presented exclusively by people of this world.
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