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The Advent of Religious Search Engines
Beetle B. writes "Do Google search results contradict your religious views? Tired of getting pornographic results and worried you'll burn in Hell for it? Are you Christian? Try SeekFind — 'a Colorado Springs-based Christian search engine that only returns results from websites that are consistent with the Bible.' Muslim? Look no further: I'm Halal. Jewish? Jewogle is for you. NPR ran a story on the general trend of search engines cropping up to cater to certain religious communities. I wonder how many other 'filtered' search engines exist out there to cater to various groups (religious or otherwise) — not counting specialized searches (torrents, etc)."
After all, were can a god fearing Muslim get a live feed from a mass rape for the sake of honor of an honorless people go? Youtube just doesn't cater.
And just where is a hindoe supposed to go to see women burned alive because it is cheaper then divorce?
Where is a Christian supposed to get info on bomb building to destroy that abortion clinic they disapprove off because having high teenage pregnancy is all the rage?
Mainstream media just doesn't cater.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
The name "believer" doesn't tip you off that you're believing in something that has no provable basis in fact, ie a superstition?
which is totally what she said
Every atheist accepts that there is no deity on blind faith and without further investigation. Not that such a belief is any more or less reasonable than your run-of-the-mill "invisible man in the sky" myth, but it is a similarly unsupported belief just the same. Granted, atheism is often far less harmful than some religious notions, but it is no more rational. Yes, really. Stating "I know..." about a thing that is, by definition, unknowable, is irrational. "I don't know...", on the other hand, not so much.
Having your information filtered against your will != choosing a filter for your information.
Right. The first is evil, the second is stupid.
Every time you use a search engine, you're filtering data, otherwise, it will just be a list of sites on the Internet
Excellent use of equivocation! I think the judges are definitely going to award this one a mark in the high eights, maybe even the low nines!
Obviously only an idiot or a shill would use the word "filter" to mean "filter out results that offend my cultural prejudices" and then flip to mean "filter out results that are completely unrelated to the object of my search".
So I'm curious: which are you?
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.
Because they affect the rest of us sane, non-fairy-tale believing folks.
And they vote. That's reason enough to attempt to ridicule them out of existence.
With the first link, the chain is forged.