Tag: freedom of religion
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File-Sharing is Now an Official Religion in Sweden
from geekosystem.com: The Missionary Church of Kopimism, or in layman’s terms, the Church of File-Sharing, was founded in 2010 by Isak Gerson, a philosophy student with a love of file-sharing that, well, bordered on religious. Now, after years of petitioning the Swedish government for official status, he finally got it. The idea was that through…
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12/15 pop occulture: osama, occupy & more
poll: osama tops religion news for 2011* occupy 2.0? church leaders join movement* satire: 5 subtle ways to convince co-workers that you’re evil* atheists embracing faith for their kids* senate action averts shutdown of US religious freedom commission* christopher hitchens dead at 62*
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air force academy builds stone circle for pagan worship
Chaplain Major Darren Duncan says in a LA Times article, “we’re here to accommodate all religions, period”. The academy dedicated, this spring, a $80,000 outdoor worship center called the Cadet Chapel Falcon Circle (left). It seems, a move to honor “freedom of religion”, and possibly, to fight perception the Air Force Academy fosters a “…climate…