Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

If you want to see something quite uninformative, check out this assortment of clodpates. These intellectually homeless people are not saying anything important, but they think they are. And that's significant. If you want to know something of a person, pay attention to what he thinks is important.

Here is a collection of people who've met to discuss what they think is important: the ramifications of Google on their theology. Technology liberates theology, one of them says. And while the speakers are doling out their insights, people in the room are twittering, and when a speaker says something the more reflective ones think is especially trenchant, they shout out "TWEETABLE".

Very festive.

Doug Pagitt's shirt came fresh from the hamper, obviously, but do not let that distract you: keep uppermost in your mind the fact that Doug is a "Social and Theological Entrepreneur"—what in the "Agrarian Age" was referred to as a snake-oil salesman. He is talking about our "Inventive Age". You'll probably find that unhelpful.

Listen to Steve Knight give his take on the gospel and, ironically, watch him struggle with his presentation software.

And listen to Jana Riess as she introduces her Twible: "What Can We Say About God in 140 Characters or Less?" She apparently doesn't like much about her god, and she offers a few reasons she considers him OCD.

At some point there was a designated time for audience response: everyone ("even a white male", Tony Jones reminded them) was invited to the podium to "say what you learned/say what you think", and of course a resentful black woman got up to complain that there weren't enough dark googlers to suit her sense of racial justice. One little sweetheart inarticulately expressed her hope that we "use these tools responsibly and ethically". Another black guy rose to talk about his "thought revamping" and to convey in a very relaxed and meandering way his "grave concern for the impoverished community...very sensitive to the divide that continues to increase...how much of a minority I am...this could be sort of representation of the obstacle of getting to the black church and how we think about things but I don't think about things like that...interesting to see how this gets into the different color communities..." blah blah blah

One guy expressed gratitude: "I have thoroughly enjoyed as much as the conference I have enjoyed the relationships", and then he went on to say something totally incoherent but which was very important to him personally.

Another white guy got up to opine about why black people were under-represented...at which point Tony inserted himself to ask for people to share ways they hope to use these tools in the local church.

Another guy, having seen pictures of the earth from outer space, expressed a great sadness that we here on earth fight over the lines which can't even be seen from space!

I don't suppose there has ever been a more tedious, banal, self-absorbed, profane, cliché-ridden, and resentful religious movement since the Cenozoic Era.

So, yeah, you should go watch. If you don't believe in Hell before you watch, you will after.