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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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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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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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Because I’m THAT kind of pedant

December 8, 2009

That’s right. The WORST kind. David P posted this a few weeks ago on Facebook, and I’m only just now getting around to posting it. Retrosexual David Malki has composed a list of fictional collective nouns for supernatural entities, and some of them are religious. I’ll let you work out which ones. I think you’ll [...]

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Religious memery

September 16, 2009

Kanyegate didn’t happen than two days ago, and it’s already spawned a healthy internet meme. As with most memes, some of these involves religious themes and imagery. And because I’m a HUGE fan of Supernatural:

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Edward Cullen, you’re my hero

September 6, 2009

I heard rumblings along the inter-tracks about a religion based on the Twilight novels (and, I suppose, films), but a Google search just pulled up a bunch of pages that seem to stem from an Urban Dictionary post (wherein the original poster coined the term “Twiligion”). The straighter-faced side of this stems from a thread [...]

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The power of Crucio compels you!

July 29, 2009

A fluff piece on the Harry Potter Alliance, who follow the ancient moral code laid down for Harry by Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter books. This seems more an ethical than religious group, who have donated 13,000 books to the community (Potter, perchance?) and US$15,000 to genocide intervention in Darfur. Their teachings are more [...]

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LOLcat Bible founder too squeamish to read Passion narrative in LOLspeak

April 14, 2009

Last week ABC Radio’s ‘Lingua Franca’ programme interviewed Martin Grondin, founder of the LOLcat Bible wiki. Grodin is a software engineer who served more as editor and abritrator than translator on the project. Grodin describes himself as coming from a religious background, although his faith lapsed some time ago. He still balks, however, at the [...]

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Private prayer request over school stoush viewed as “public” allegation by principal

February 13, 2009

The receptionist at a school in Devon may face dismissal for misconduct after she allegedly made claims against the school and its staff. Jennie Cain’s 5-year-old daughter was reprimanded by a teacher after she was overheard discussing Jesus and Heaven with a class-mate. She met her mother in tears after school, who subsequently approached the [...]

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In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits writing comics

February 12, 2009

I’ve just been informed of another Cthulhu/Chick tract. Readers may remember this other one from a few months back.

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