The word “sex” has over 3 billion result-hits on Google. By contrast, the word “God” does not even have 2 billion result-hits. I don’t know what to make of this. Google, of course, is a world-wide search engine so I can’t blame the discrepancy on the U.S. culture—or even on Western culture.
But what can we make of the disparity in result-hits? Why is “sex” a more popular topic on Google than “God?” Are people, statistically speaking, more interested in sex than in God? Or, is it that people feel they know less about sex than about God? Conversely, is God so mundane a topic that people aren’t as interested in researching the topic? Or, do people feel as if they are so familiar with God, like their own shoe size, that research on God is oxymoronic? Finally, does the wide margin of result-hits say something about the population who use Google and nothing definitive about people’s interest in sex or God?
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