YouTube censors atheists; Religital catches up almost a year later

December 6, 2009

Now, I know I’m behind in my posting, but this is getting ridiculous. A lot of the feeds in my RSS reader have been spewing up old news and this is one of them (although I can’t work out which it was, as I’ve had the tab open for ages). Still, it’s interesting anyway.
Apparently this [...]

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Twittorah

December 5, 2009

Rabbi Ben Greenberg has collected a number of readings from the Torah – re-tweeted by a selection of Jewish users – into a book available from internet self-publisher Lulu.
Not everyone is pleased with the marriage of religion and social media, however, and Corey Hodges warned against obscuring Christianity beneath layers of entertainment, in his blog [...]

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The Glowstick Testament

November 16, 2009

The Glo Bible aims to update scripture for the iPhone generation (okay, I just decided that there’s an ‘iPhone generation’). This DVD-ROM features HD videos, maps and ‘virtual tours’ of 1st century Jerusalem, and suspiciously like creator Nelson Saba’s iLumina (2002). Odiously, this DVD-ROM isn’t something you actually ‘buy’ for the US$90 price tag, but [...]

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It’s official: belief in anthropogenic global warming is basically a religious belief. Sort of.

November 5, 2009

Justice Michael Burton ruled that Tim Nicholson’s belief in climate change is akin to a religious belief, and can thus file for unfair dismissal on that ground.
While Nicholson sees this as a victory for his cause, I’m still surprised more people aren’t complaining ‘it’s scientific fact, not religious belief’. Justice Burton last year ruled on [...]

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Loosen my religion

November 4, 2009

With apologies to Msrs Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe.
The first story concerns the burgeoning scene of Muslim punk, which goes by the name of Taqwacore after the novel by Michael Muhammad Knight. I posted a story about this on my Facebook a few months ago (before I’d resumed blogging), but it’s doing the rounds again [...]

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Believers and skeptics

October 27, 2009

An English property developer has challenged his sacking as unlawful, and claims his belief in global warming is a religious belief they are illegally discriminating against. Tim Nicholson, former head of “sustainability” at Grainger PLC, claims he was fired because “his views on the environment are so strong that they led to clashes with other [...]

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Religion and airport scanners

October 26, 2009

A bit of a weird round-up this time, but airport security stories have been turning up on the religion blogs lately.
The first story concerns a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop who was discovered with sexual images of young children on his laptop hard-drive by airport security. Tmatt at GetReligion asked “What made them search a bishop?” [...]

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Taoism or Daoism?

October 25, 2009

Wade-Giles or Pinyin?
Singaporean Taoists are moving to provide all their literature (canonical texts, websites, etc.) in English as well as Mandarin, and the newest priest-training college also plans to be bilingual. This is no huge surprise in an ex-British colony, but I was surprised to see the breakdown according to the 2000 census cited on [...]

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Are Buddhas lesser than gods?

October 12, 2009

I’ve decided to keep all my posts on religion and videogames for my gaming blog, but I’ll link to them and make any further comment I think is more appropriately placed here.
I may be rather late to the party, but I’ve only just discovered “Buddha Mode” mods for gaming. Read all about it in my [...]

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Parsis in the Digital Age

October 11, 2009

One of the things that really interests me is how archaic and minority religions survive their various diasporas. AFP published a piece on how Parsis are using digital and social media technology to contact one another and bolster their religious identity. This can be anything from Zpeakerbox, an online zine for Zoroastrian youth to Facebook [...]

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