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Pope Promotes Christian Netiquette
angry tapir writes "Pope Benedict XVI Monday gave his blessing to social networking, urging Catholic Internet users to adopt a respectful Christian netiquette when spreading the Gospel online. The pope said new technologies were creating unprecedented opportunities for establishing relationships and building fellowship but warned against creating false online profiles out of vanity or diluting the Christian message to achieve popularity."
where on earth they found a picture of a nun with an Eee PC.
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
Catholic Church, but this make me happy.
Religion would bother me a lot less if the people practicing it were polite.
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"It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives."
Said the pope, just before praying to god
Ceci n'est pas un sig.
Don't forget the anti-Christian rhetoric poorly disguised as anti-religious-in-general rhetoric. That's popular too these days.
Well, he was elected. . .linkity,
and he is the head of the Catholic Church, so he does have the authority to remind Catholics to behave online.
As for the other ad-hominems, I'll just leave them alone.
Thou shalt friend thy neighbor as thyself
Vatican City is an independent country. He is its Head of State by virtue of being elected Pope. So, he is an elected politician and a head of state. just because you disagree with the basic premise of his State and his authority doesn't make it go away, so deal with it. I'm not Catholic, I don't give a crap what he has to say either, but I'm not bitter that he's saying it. Its not like anyone who can affect my life actual listens to him, like Pat Robertson and his so-called "Christian Coalition" bullshit.
I think Wicca for instance is just as much bullshit as Christianity, but so far they don't seem to be trying to force anything on me, so I haven't had a reason to protest against them.
I'm perfectly fine with people having private irrational beliefs and staging elaborate ceremonies with scented candles (or whatever the Wicccans do on a regular basis). Now when people start trying to impose their religion on the rest of society, that's when I start having a very big problem with it.
You should care, billion people respond to what he says, and their action can impact you in some pretty serious ways.
I don't like the church, but that doesn't mean I am not aware of it's impact.
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And Iran's election was at least representative. When you look at the way the Pope is elected, you'll quickly notice that it doesn't even make fake attempts at resembling democracy.
The Pope is elected by the cardinals. Which are in turn appointed by the Pope. There's nothing any "ordinary" catholic contributes to that election.
Just a gentle reminder that "elected" doesn't necessarily mean that the process has anything to do with what we consider Democracy.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
That's because, while the Vatican is recognized as a nation state, the Roman Catholic Church is not. Of course, the upside of this is that no one is forced to be a Catholic any more. If you don't like the way Popes are chosen, you pick a church more to your liking, or make your own.
You have that a bit funny. The current Pope picks the Cardinals, or rather picks new cardinals. The next Pope is chosen by those Cardinals. This does allow the current Pope no insignificant amount of power to try to direct the nature of his successor, but when the next Pope is chosen, he's dead.
Sort of like Soviet and Chinese elections.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Don't "poke" them either.
Of course. Also, it's not like there are many world leaders that take his word into account because they share the same imaginary friend, and certainly the church doesn't own land and companies all over the world, and is certainly not one of the biggest and most effective lobbying organizations in the world.
Sadly, stupid stupid people with imaginary friends have more power than you think.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
anti-Judaic? anti-Islamic? Right here on Slashdot. Go back and read about the Israel/Palestine peace talk leaks. There's a lot of quite nasty rhetoric going both ways from people who claim to be disinterested parties.
You seem to think that the only person saying nasty things about other religions is Christians. You're quite wrong. This doesn't excuse the Christians who *are* spouting nonsense, but it applies equally well to anybody of any religious orientation.
There's nothing any "ordinary" catholic contributes to that election.
Except for the money to pay for the caviar.
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There's nothing any "ordinary" catholic contributes to that election.
They contribute alms and tithes. How do you think those bishops pay for those outrageously tacky costumes?
Which brings me to another point: the Catholic Church needs a new cost-cutting CFO. Instead of those custom made costumes, the bishops can pick out something of the rack at Wal-Mart. The nuns can sew in a bit out bling: it will keep them busy, so they don't have time to get themselves into some hanky-panky.
Oh, and this confessional service: Outsource it to a call center in India. The priest is hidden behind an opaque window anyway, so he might as well be in India.
I hope that the Church heeds my words and implements these cost-cutting actions. Otherwise, the Pope is going to pay a visit to Washington, DC, and say, "Um, like, we need a bailout or something."
That said, the last couple of years has been rough on devout Catholics. I'm biased, because one of my friends is one. She seems to have the same feelings that geeks have, when they love the company that they work for, but are not particularly fond of the management.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
That is because you can disagree with someone and still listen to what they are saying and perhaps agree with other points. Most people will just pigeon hole a person and mark them as always right or always wrong, vs. Listening to their view and actually making a decision themselves if they agree with it or not.
Oddly enough you can extend this idea out even further and it is possible for Atheist to follow the philosophy of Christianity without any of the Dogma, and mythology around it.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The pope said there was "a Christian way of being present in the digital world: this takes the form of a communication which is honest and open, responsible and respectful of others."
If people would actually follow this it would increase the quality of the discourse on the internet. Regardless of what you think of the religion, this is a good thing.
And why must every Catholic article get the same tired pedophile priest jokes? There's no more pedophile priests than there are pedophile psychiatrists, teachers, and scout masters out there.
And this is why /. shouldn't post anything on religion. The readers of /. may know a lot about technology, but the people who post, don't know the first thing about religion and only post comments based off pop-culture and don't actually do their own research.
What he says is that catholics is not the same as christians - it's one of many sub-groups. It's like saying that Volvo is a car, but a car doesn't have to be a Volvo!
This is blinging
Vatican 2 would indicate otherwise: http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/issue3/hall.htm. Though it does indicate that it is the most complete source of truth, those religions which most closely parallel its own teaching would appear to get rough approval. While the linked article does not discuss Protestant / Catholic issues, the Protestant churches of the world are those most likely to find approval under the Vatican 2 schema. "All truth is God's truth" is significant (though not stated this way) in the related documents and has led some Catholic theologians to look towards a type of inclusivistic redemption for those in other religions.
I think these will eventually evolve, but I'd like to see *more* organized pushes to set some standards. I've been a net denizen since around '91 and many of the issues I see people struggling with (or at least not appreciating the consequences of) I've already been through. Things like firing off that quick, snide comment, the persistence of any statements you make, privacy, etc. I'm by no means perfect or Lawful Good on the interwebz, but I at least understand what can happen every time I interact online.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Damn straight, I'll make my own religion. With blackjack. And hookers.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I think you have it wrong. It is not the blackjack you are supposed to be screwing.
What? No, really, WHAT!?!?!? People still buy this shit?
Whether the priests were homosexual is immaterial, even if you were correct that 100% of the priests were homosexual. Homosexuality and pedophilia are two completely and utterly different things, done for different reasons, and there is no credible correlation between the two.
A homosexual has no inherent desire toward children of either gender. That takes a pedophile. A homosexual can be a pedophile, and a pedophile can be a homosexual, but there isn't a correlation between the two. Heterosexuals can be pedophiles, too, and have been for a lot longer than the liberalization of the Church.
The actions were homosexual in nature, in that the priests abused young boys, but it's not because the priests actually preferred boys to girls. Boys were victimized because boys were available and easy to manipulate, not because the abusers necessarily had a preference for those of their own gender. If there had been young teen altar girls available and the priests had ignored them and gone after the boys, you might possibly, maybe have a nugget of truth there. And I'm sure some percentage of the priests who committed the abuses are also homosexual, but don't automatically associate the two.
The kind of person who goes after young kids, regardless of gender, is doing it for power and control. Pedophilia is the victimization of someone who cannot defend themselves. In other words, rape.
The kind of person who engages in consensual heterosexual relationships with adults of like mind is doing it for their own flavor of love. You may not be comfortable with the idea homosexual love (I know I'm not, the vision of two men going at it gives me the screaming heebie jeebies, but it's also none of my goddamned business as long as both agree to it), but that doesn't mean that I feel threatened by homosexuals or would be any more concerned having a young child in the presence of a homosexual than I would a heterosexual.
It's not like priests abusing their altar boys is new (or, to be fair, even relegated to priests - it unfortunately happens in a lot of situations where adults with serious psychological issues are put in charge of children and insufficient precautions are taken to protect those children). It's been happening for a LONG time. And a lot of organizations have tried to cover it up. What's new is that the general populace is finally questioning and becoming aware of the actions of one of the most powerful non-Governmental bodies in history, and those actions now have consequences. You can't just have a Bishop or Cardinal give you absolution after you do something illegal and have that be the end of it, because the Church is no longer the law, nor are its members outside the law of the lands they are living in.
I'm hoping you just made that up, and that your statement above is not something your priest laid out for you. If the Church is now making up a correlation between the two is not at all surprising, but it is saddening. I thought the Church had really taken the scandal seriously and was trying to actually prevent it, not just pointing a finger and yelling "it's all the homersexuels's fault!" and bitching about the necessary controls that are honestly helping them prevent this from happening again.
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