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Politics

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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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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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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Scientology, mob rule and “Gov 2.0″

September 14, 2009

I wasn’t following it at the time so this may not be news to anyone, but apparently the Obama administration’s Citizen’s Briefing Book – a collection of policy ideas submitted electronically by American citizens in the lead-up to the Inauguration – showed some interesting results. 44,000 proposals were floated by members of the public, and [...]

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