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Babri mosque update

September 28, 2010

It has been confirmed that the verdict will be handed down on the 30th of September, as I previously speculated the dating of the texting ban extension indicated. ‘Indian court to rule on Ayodhya mosque row on Thursday‘, Reuters.com (28/9/10)

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Queensland University of Technology lawyer back at work after Bible and Qur’an burning

September 24, 2010

Presumably in honour of ‘Burn a Koran Day’ on the 11th of September QUT employee Alex Stewart, who works in the university’s legal services department, posted a video to YouTube (since removed) that featured him rolling ‘joints’ with pages from the Qur’an, then the Bible. Stewart started to suspect things may have gotten out of [...]

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No bulk texting in India until Babri mosque verdict

September 23, 2010

The Indian government has banned bulk texting for three days until the publication by the High Court as to whether the Babri mosque is on Muslim or Hindu land. The poor Jains don’t even get a look-in. Built in the 16th century on land that Hindus believe to be the birthplace of Rama, antipathy about [...]

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Offlining for Yom Kippur

September 18, 2010

Jewish ad execs Mark DiMassimo and Eric Yaverbaum have created a campaign for people to disconnect from social media for Yom Kippur. The pair have a co-opted an old series of posters for Levy’s Jewish Rye Bread to create a number of cautionary tales involving celebrities. via ‘Try the OffLining Pledge for Yom Kippur?‘, Read [...]

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App Store guidelines state religious criticism not welcome

September 11, 2010

Apple’s App Store have, to the initial relief of developers, finally released guidelines for app development. Previously devs were left in the dark as to what was and wasn’t kosher, and were often given no idea as to why apps were rejected for hosting in the App Store. They aren’t supposed to be publicly available, [...]

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Austrian anti-mosque game taken down

September 8, 2010

Austrian nationalists the Freedom Party recently hosted flash game Moschee Ba Ba (Bye Bye, Mosque) on their website. It has since been taken down, but the site still shows the basis of the game: a stylised skyline of Styria province. Apparently minarets (some complete with muezzins) would periodically bob up for the player to shoot [...]

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World of Genesis… craft. Of War.

September 6, 2010

Rumours of a Bible MMO have been greatly exaggerated. The Bible Online: Chapter 1 – The Heroes looks to be less than its source material might promise. Players assume the role of Abraham and (somehow) his descendants; this last being perhaps the most interesting feature mentioned. I’m not sure how they could incorporate that into [...]

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Holy water on tap

February 28, 2010

Enterprising Italian inventor Luciano Marabese has developed an automatic holy water dispenser to be used until fears of Swine Flu (the H1N1 Virus) have abated. Many churches, including Milan’s cathedral, had suspended use of their holy water fonts following 15 deaths in the nation, so Marabese has been inundated with orders for the device. I [...]

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The other kind of Halo

February 21, 2010

Returning from an Xbox 360-enforced hiatus (having gotten one just after Christmas), it’s entirely appropriate I finally post the following story (and no, it’s not about alien religions in Mass Effect). Aaron Linne from Christian company LifeWay has developed a multimedia Bible app for the Xbox 360: Bible Navigator X. The move from printed to [...]

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Expressing Free Market Parables Since 2009

December 16, 2009

Some of you may have already heard about Conservapedia’s ‘Conservative Bible Project‘ (CBP). American “Conservatives” (who, like conservatives in Australia, are often the most radical) have begun a wiki project to rewrite the Bible free from “liberal distortion”. Their problem with current translations is as follows. As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation [...]

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