Religious use of the Internet   The Vatican State has a web page where you can confess your sins. A Japanese Buddhist temple offers virtual graves for deceased relatives - and VIRTUAL PETS! The religious use of Internet is a highly interesting phenomenon - it represents an even further mediation of religious experience than the medieval Indulgences. You don't even have to go through a HUMAN channel to communicate with your chosen deity, just type in a web address - no guilt, no hard feelings, they won't take the trouble to trace you because you can confess through anonymous remailers. Actually, a huge step has thus been taken towards the democratization of religion! Priests? Who needs 'em? Just throw in a PriestBot, an intelligent agent who can deliver the Sunday sermon to you in the comfort of your own home. You can also subscribe to a mailing list with suitably "fire and brimstone" sermons once a week - you can save them on your hard disk for further reference. No more evil patriarch priests who control a whole village by cruelly pulling the rights strings and threatening with Hell - now, if you don't like the sermon, just press 'delete' and no frightening thoughts will assail you. /mikael