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Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

…e world beyond, about the connection being framed here between the virtual world and the underworld, and so forth. I am hoping the series gives us more opportunities to explore those issues.   Salman Hameed___________________ I liked this episode, and Tamara’s character and her circumstances have a lot to do with that. Henry has brought up some fascinating points about the nature of games and gamers. However, what caught my attention was that Tama…

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The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

…slation,” Ferrell walks us through the complex and bedeviled history of a truly Modern English-language Bible. We all know how Martin Luther’s revolutionary reform of the Catholic church was embedded in two fundamental practices: translation of the Bible into the German vernacular, and thus putting the Book back into the People’s hands. That dangerous and unsettling principle, “the priesthood of all believers,” requires first and foremost a Bible…

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The Google Question of Evil

…oogle mean by evil? And how will Googlers know when Google has overstepped Google’s Google-imposed boundaries? Silicon Valley is not known for excessive concern about moral dilemmas (Bogost, a writer and video game designer, lives in the South, where moral angst is de rigueur). Still, Google has tried to answer these Big Questions. In a passage that will be illuminating for the religiously-inclined, Bogost discusses how Google chairman Eric Schmid…

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Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

…as the ironic function of providing, then patrolling, what is available on Google-owned YouTube. Google’s policy is to remove content only if it is hate speech, which violates its terms of service, or in response to valid court orders or government requests. After determining at first that, under its own guidelines, the offensive video was not hate speech, Google eventually announced that, “given the very difficult situation in Libya and Egypt we…

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Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course

…e first public school district in the country to have a required course on world religion. The ninth-grade World Geography and Religion (WGR) course devotes nine weeks to religion. The First Amendment Center, which helped design the course, conducted a study to assess its effectiveness, finding that students had more accurate and balanced information about world religion as well as an increased understanding and appreciation of the First Amendment…

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Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

…around the block. (II) Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood Superstar The Good: Shah Rukh Khan, “the world’s biggest movie star,” is fluent in the universal language known as Bollywood. The beloved, versatile actor would be an ideal candidate for Caliph considering he is already called “King Khan” and Caliph would keep consonance alive. Also, Caliph SRK is a great, friendly acronym for TMZ news and US Magazine. Considering politics, religion, and entertainm…

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Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

…dealing with the Suhartos of the world would be problematic. If they were truly, truly, political (as they seem to behave) then it would be a matter of just backing and creating politicians, right? But its more like a movement—and this movement is about certainty. Certainty means that Jesus has put the right people in charge, and submission and assistance to them will ensure that God’s Kingdom will eventually come. It is the certainty that America…

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Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

…lesbian kiss scene in the first episode of the new season of Dr. Who. The BBC Worldwide’s London-based compliance team made the cut to conform with laws against same-sex relations and broadcast content in Asian countries such as Muslim majority Malaysia and Indonesia. Viewers in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore also watched the same censored version…. Jeanne Leong, director of communications at BBC Worldwide Asia, said as an internatio…

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Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

…it, the transgender community and allies may have to gear up for a long struggle.” In other news, the Central Board of Film Certification “has refused to certify for public exhibition” a film about the lives of two gay men and a woman in Kerala. More from The News Minute: The board has stated that the film is “ridiculing, insulting and humiliating Hindu religion, in particular portraying Hindu Gods in poor light”. Prathibha A, the regional office…

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Crisis in Sudan: ‘If the World Stands Idly By This Time, They Will Bring Genocide’

…he world how to live together. We know how to build relationships based on mutual trust and respect.” War Without End? South Kordofan is but the latest front in the civil war gaining steam in the run-up to the July 9 date for the formal independence of southern Sudan. Like the residents of Kadugli, in the northern border state of South Kordofan, many Sudanese are finding themselves on the wrong side of disputed borders. There are, for example, man…

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