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during one of several group meetings today, one of my group members rhetorically asked (after we showed him the website), "Is wikipedia the Bible?"

of course, we laughed it off initially, then very seriously, my other group member turned to him and replied, "well, it's right...pretty much...ALL THE TIME."

later i got to thinking about my great love for wikipedia.  it's one of my bookmarked buttons on my IE dashboard.  i use wiki as a verb very liberally and as a part of everyday speech.  i read the wikiHOW section on my iGoogle homepage countless times last summer at work (i even read about how to throw a middle school, themed, slumber party.  yes, i wasted a good 45 seconds of my life).  currently, i read wikiTravel before i ever commit to buying a lonely planet book, and of course, INVESTOpedia saves my life everyday in finance class.  all this love taken into account, i'd say it's never a question of whether or not i'd access wikipedia on a daily basis, but rather, how frequently i access wikipedia on a daily basis.

then the latter part of the question was rather sad.  yes, i wholehearted believe that the Bible is the living word of God.  i don't question the legitimacy of its words.  still, though, reading the Bible for me is an odd practice. first of all, it's a practice i skip out on all too often.  i think i love prayer a lot more than the Bible, and i've been trying to increase the latter for quite some time now.  secondly, reading the Bible is either like a beach read or Shakespeare to me - i can skim it easily and in my mind, it seems like fairy tale after fairy tale, OR, i can attempt to chew on it and pause and ponder upon it and give it time to sit and soak in slowly.  again, i'm still trying to increase the latter.  regardless of what i try, however, i realized the very sad statistic that i certainly do frequent wikipedia more often than my Bible. 

have search engines and online resources become the new bible