Wednesday Godbytes: SOPA; Tea Party Jesus; Scholarship for Atheists

While sections of the internet have “gone dark” today in protest of SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act. Internet companies such as Google (which is has a special logo today) and Wikipedia (which has taken itself down for the day in protest) think the legislation goes too far, and are taking action against it. […]

While sections of the internet have “gone dark” today in protest of SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act. Internet companies such as Google (which is has a special logo today) and Wikipedia (which has taken itself down for the day in protest) think the legislation goes too far, and are taking action against it.

Religious bloggers are getting into the act(ivism) too. Matthew Paul Turner of Jesus Needs New PR took his blog down for the day, although it seems to be harder than he thought:


Some religious twitter feeds are all in a tizzy:

And some bloggers are just blurring the line between “activist” and “slacktivist”:

Get ready: Tea Party Jesus is coming.

On the other end of the political spectrum, President Jimmy Carter, 87, reportedly still teaches sunday school.

Atheists are banding together to help Jessica Ahlquist, a Rhode Island high schooler who launched (and won) a court case against her school for a prayer banner in their auditorium. Atheists are raising money for a scholarship on her behalf. (Social news aggregation website Reddit is helping too, but they’ve “gone dark” today as well)

Finally, your Video of the Day is a virtual tour of the Waling Wall in Israel, a place sacred to Jews.

– Jack NAME WITHELD Jenkins

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