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This Tweek in Religital

October 1, 2011

It’s been a long Hellatus (sorry, Supernatural fans), but I’ve been active on Twitter that whole time. Surprise I’ve decided that a good way to keep content on the blog might be to round-up the week’s tweets in a blog post (which then gets re-tweeted. Ha-HA!). Here goes: * Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology | Wired.com [...]

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Coptic Orthodox churches turn up on website’s hitlist

January 6, 2011

A list of Coptic Orthodox churches has been unearthed on a Muslim extremist website, including the Alexandrian church that was attacked on New Year’s Day. Some of the other churches on the list have stepped up security in preparation for the Feast of the Epiphany on the 6th. In Holland several nearby Muslim communities have [...]

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Google Earth and religion

December 31, 2010

Google Earth was in the news regarding religion twice recently. The first story concerns the discovery via satellite photo that a prominent Star of David exists on Iran Air’s main building. My first thought was that it was just a geometric symbol, and also one that is prominent in Islam as its artistic tradition praised [...]

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WikiLeaks and religion

December 29, 2010

Here are a few views on what the WikiLeaks dump means for religions the world over. Obviously they focus on diplomatic relations, so we really only see Islam and Christianity represented here. Muqtedar Khan ‘WikiLeaks exposes Muslim nations’ hypocrisy‘, Washington Post (28/11/10) Reuters ‘Scathing U.S. view of French unrest and Muslim integration in WikiLeaks‘, Faith [...]

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Round-up Deux

November 29, 2010

*deep breath* Okay, here’s the rest: ‘Muslims Target TV/Internet Evangelist for Death‘, ChristianNewsWire (14/10/10) Reuters ‘Dead Sea scrolls going digital on Internet‘, FaithWorld (19/10/10) Reuters ‘Bible.com investor sues company for lack of profit‘, FaithWorld (20/10/10) Bob Allen ‘Sheriff’s office settles lawsuit with former church member outed for blog‘, Associated Baptist Press (21/10/10) Heidi Campbell ‘New [...]

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Links round-up

November 28, 2010

Trying to clear a bottleneck of stories I haven’t posted on. Mea maxima culpa. Heidi Campbell ‘Can an online community be a church ? IRS says “No”!‘, When Religion Meets New Media (24/8/10) Joshua M. Z. Stanton ‘Cyber Dialogue: The Future of Inter-Religious Engagement‘, Patheos (6/9/10) Eli Yishai ‘Shas minister shuts down online payments on [...]

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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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Yom Kippurrr and repairing the virtual world

September 19, 2010

In honour of the Pope’s highly successful tour of England (a.k.a the Roman Invasion) and in the spirit of complete bias in reporting, I’ve decided to play advocatus diaboli to Andrew’s advocatus Dei. It’s amazing what you find by being literal with Google: who would have thought that there was a Jewish iPhone Community website: [...]

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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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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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