Digital Divine

It is surprising to me that in a world a world many leading theologians would decribe as "godless" and "lost" I see so many peopler of faith. This is not the faith Christianity ir Islam; it is not the faith of Judaism or Budahism; it is not even the faith of Scientology or Evolution. It is the faith of technology.
We see manifestations of it everywhere - on the racks of stores, in the homes of families, in the ears of adolescents - faith. What is this faith? And who are the believers? They are all of us, from the mother that turns her TV on to the youth who purchases an I-pod. Without any understanding of how it works or any visual evidence of it workings, we believe with all our hearts that when we "burn" a CD or hit "Play" on our DVD remote, we are not just wasting our time. We trust that if we dial a number on the 8 ounces of sleek 21st century sexiness in our palm, we will hear a voice greeting us within seconds.
As technology advances to perform more and more amazing things, our blind faith does not stop to question, but simply increases our dutiful worship. In fact, if someone were to ask us how our I-pod can play thousands of songs, save hundreds of photos and entertain us with dozens of movies or TV shows, we would respond with a shrug and, "I dunno. Who cares?"
With no visible evidence - no possible way to observe the electrons and protons and microscopic impulses - we simply accept their existence to be a fact. We spout out words like "Gigabyte" and "Ram" with little or no concept of what these words actually entail. We see the results, praise the Digital Divine, and bend our lives in respectful subservience.