
This first paragraph in this morning's web roundup could have been put in my infrequent 'Modern Signs of Ageing' series of posts - a chap in Japan writing about couples using their computers at the same time and what that does for their relationships. The comments from others are interesting - particularly from one Anna C, who pretty much covers why the internet is so fascinating and ubiquitous. The discussion reminded me of something a colleague said a few weeks ago about his parents - they get in from work, boot up their PCs and are pretty much on World of Warcraft until the early hours. It sounded a bit Evercrack to me, but then these MMORPGs encourage such behaviour.
Video game / net addicts seem wholly sane, however, next to the religious. I've bashed religion a few times in this blog, most recently Scientology, but now there's a new multi-millionaire right-hand of the Lord. Honestly, God now has so many right-hands he must look like a deformed Durga. Anyway, this new right hand (new to me, anyway), is one Rick Warren and he calls his new spin on God-fearing the Purpose Driven Life (that should be hyphenated, of course, but let's not be pedantic at this stage). So far, so tedious. The difference is that apparently Warren has put a considerable amount of mana behind a video game - Left Behind - which depicts a world sans bible-bashers (they've all been sucked up to Heaven in 'the Rapture', of course. Keep up.) and consumed by religious war. Your mission, in this dominionist FPS, is 'to conduct physical and spiritual warfare' against 'Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians'. It'll be out in time for Christmas.
If the mention of religion has your blood boiling like Sodom's swimming baths, then you might want to take a look at some calming academic research - into the F-word. That's 'fuck', by the way, not 'fundamentalist'.
Who put the 'mental' in 'fundamentalist' ?
Who put the 'cunt' in 'Scunthorpe' ?
Who put the...oh, bollocks to it, I've got work to do.
UPDATE - Seems like the infamous F-word will now cost you much money if you dare say it on US broadcast meeja...
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