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Apr202007

Web site of the damned

Filed under Uncategorized by jennifer o'callaghan at 3:19 pm

This week in Encore, Associated Press writer Jake Coyle used his On the Net column to talk a little about religious Web sites popping up in cyberspace - including GodTube.com and MyChurch.org.

On the other end of the spectrum, BoingBoing found a site wherein viewers upload videos of themselves "denying the Holy Spirit."

The site is The Blasphemy Challenge. Submissions earn a copy of the documentary The God Who Wasn't There.

I don't know how I feel about either end of the spectrum. It is interesting to see Christians tap into new technology to spread their faith, and somehow less surprising (perhaps unfairly so?) that atheists are also using the Internet to spread their message. I guess I just always assume the devout aren't Web savvy, which I recognize is a complete generalization.

I fall somewhere between the target markets of both GodTube and The Blasphemy Challenge, raised Catholic and am probably now more agnostic than anything else. While I do think it is a smart move by both camps to mimic or use YouTube to recruit people to their respective opinions, I am more oddly fascinated by the videos than moved to one side or the other. Some even come across as unintentionally funny. And some that I suspect were meant to be just a little bit funny, fall flat.

What do you think?

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I can understand why religious people want to use any technology at their disposal to share that faith -- but why would atheists want to expend so much effort talking about religion? The Blasphemy Challenge, for example, doesn't seem to do anything to promote a philosophical atheism, just demonstrates that the participants are still way more hung up on religion than they probably even understand.

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