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Religion: Controlling internet domains, one prayer at a time
03.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I don’t know if you were aware of these shenanigans, but apparently the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering the allowance of domains that end in ‘.christian’, ‘.muslim’, ‘.hindu’, ‘.jew’, etc… And, according to this story at the Web Newswire, Hindu religious leader Rajan Zed is throwing a hissy-fit, saying that [...]
Do religious surveys mirror the surveyor?
03.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

When I think ‘religious survey’ I think ‘agenda’. Call me cynical, but for the most part these surveys are being churned out by explicitly religious institutions, or worse, institutions which claim objectivity yet are run by devoutly religious people (Gallup, Barna Group, etc…).
Well, it just so happens that Nathan Schneider of Religion Dispatches has a [...]
What kind words
02.22.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I received the following in the mail on my birthday, from the concentration camp church I grew up in:
Dear moneduloides,
It is God’s desire that everyone have two birthdays. He wants you to have a spiritual birthday, a day when you committed your life to Jesus Christ. In John 3:3, Jesus answered and said to Nicodemus, [...]