/images/rss.gif)
Religion
More on pagan web filtering
The BBC story on Birmingham’s City Council blocking of pagan and alternative religious websites using Blue Coat filtering software seems to be getting a lot of traction around the Web (and rightly so). Now even Tech World is getting into the fray, advising IT personnel to think carefully before implementing potentially illegal directives passed down [...]
Temple of Mithras in London
A fascinating video exploration of the London Mithraeum by Payam Nabarz.
UK city council censor occult websites
Birmingham’s City Council has just installed the “fabulous” Bluecoat web filtering software which allows Christians and Moslems to view websites relating to their religion but filters out sites dealing with “witchcraft or Satanism” and “occult practices, atheistic views, voodoo rituals or any other form of mysticism”.
The little known Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 [...]
It is better to build a seismograph than to worship the volcano
Tremendous interview about religion with the truly magnificent Terry Pratchett:
I asked a teacher what the opposite of a miracle was and she, without thinking, I assume, said it was an act of God.
You shouldn’t say something like that to the kind of kid who will grow up to be a writer; we have long memories.
No wedding because you’re impotent, says Bishop
A 26-year-old man was told he couldn’t have a Catholic wedding after being made paraplegic in a car accident.
Salvatore de Ciuco, spokesman for Bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli of Viterbo in central Italy, said: “No bishop, no priest can celebrate a wedding when he knows of admitted impotence as it is a motive for annulment”.
The man’s fiance [...]
