Priest Checks Fingerprints For Mass Attendance

mytrip writes "A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass. The pupils in the southern town of Gryfow Slaski told the daily they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who invented it. 'This is comfortable. We don't have to stand in a line to get the priest's signature (confirming our presence at the mass) in our confirmation notebooks,' said one pupil, who gave her name as Karolina."

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for better or worse, bio works

[h00manist]

bio-identification, like it or not, works great. can't lose it or fake it easily. fast and convenient. all the usual problems, of privacy vs anonymity vs rights vs security vs abuse of power, apply. those are perhaps mostly social quandaries, which can't be solved with this or that technology at all. the evolution of technology follows ahead, but socially we're really not advancing anywhere near as fast.

Re:But...

[pydev]

Cult: "a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader." (dictionary.com)

As far as I'm concerned, Catholicism is false, extremist, and it has a "charismatic leader" (to its members, not to me). Many of its most devoted members live outside conventional society. Hence, I would call it a cult, even if you might not.