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"I put my avatar in praying position and I pray at the same time. My prayer in my room is valid and my prayer online is symbolic," says Sten Muhammed Yussif Widhe, 63, of Fagersta, Sweden.
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Wherever the human imagination goes, so goes the spirit.
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Larry Transue, pastor of the site's non-denominational Northbound Community Church, sees Second Life as a mission field.
Transue, 43, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., who works in the biotech industry, is involved in evangelism and outreach at his real-world Northbound Church, and he replicated it online to "practice what I preach no matter where I am."
Second Life, like the physical world, is riddled by "sin in thought, word and deed. People think what they do in a virtual world is OK, because it's not real. But it is real, because your thoughts are real. Who you truly are will shine through eventually," says Transue.
George Byrd, 37, a Columbus, Ohio, real estate broker, built the lavishly landscaped First Unitarian Universalist Church of Second Life, and organized weekly services that now draw more than 40 people.
To Byrd, virtual services here are as authentic as those in the physical-world church he attends in Columbus. "The spiritual connection is in your brain and in your soul. It's the same either way," Byrd says.
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He says Second Life spirituality, however inventive, perpetuates the blasphemous idea that people control creation.
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Indeed, says Internet expert Julian Dibbell, "virtual reality is in some ways an essentially spiritual experience." Dibbell, of South Bend, Ind., has written about online society for 15 years and served as a consultant to Linden Lab.
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