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Posted by michael on from the it-has-been-one-week-since-my-last-virtual-confession dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "It's Sunday and some of you might go to a church. But starting on May 11, and for a duration of three months, you'll be able to go to a virtual church. Only the building, with its altar and pews, will be virtual. The preacher, congregation and prayers will be real, according to this BBC News article, 'Glimpse inside the virtual church.' This experiment is launched by a Christian website, Ship of Fools, and will be named Church of Fools. Even with such a foolish name, the virtual church project has been approved by the church hierarchy. This overview contains other details and references about the Church of Fools project."

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  1. talk about heresy by QEDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now you can go to church, read /. and watch pr0n all at the same time.

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    "There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
  2. Confession? by MrIrwin · · Score: 5, Funny
    Come on now....own up to your virtual sins. Otherwise you will be sent to Dante's virtual inferno where BSD deamons are condemmed to burn Windows CD's for eternity and SCO executives abound to slap lawsuits on everthing you do.

    Sorry, I'm getting a bit carried away.

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    And if you thought that was boring you obviously havn't read my Journal ;-)

  3. Re:Religion is for the week-minded by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quite. We've got church once a week...

  4. Re:WWJD? by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not religious in the slightest. But I suppose if there were popups abound on the site, it would show once and for all that Mozilla is the holier browser. ;-)

  5. Re:Religion is for the week-minded by fejikso · · Score: 5, Funny

    And what is left for those of us that are month-minded?

  6. Re:This is not just for laughs by Colonel+Cholling · · Score: 5, Funny

    would love to go to a church on Sundays but can't (e.g., those who are sick, those who live in rural areas)?

    Uh, what rural areas are you talking about? I used to live in an unincorporated town in Mississippi. It was seven miles to the nearest gas station, and there were no fast food restaurants or video rental stores. But we had three churches. Believe me, the places that are too rural to support churches are probably too rural to support internet access. Or electricity.

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    I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
  7. Confessional by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bless me, father, for I have spammed...

  8. This is BRILLIANT! +5 Flame by Any+Web+Loco · · Score: 5, Funny

    An imaginary world where people can go to an imaginary church to talk to their imaginary god.

    Oh flame away...