Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Not preaching to the converted

Last week, the UK's first online, 3D chapel opened under the sponsorship of the Methodist Church. The 'cyber pulpit' was meant to enable worshipers who found it hard to get to a ‘real’ church to be part of a community.
Now, it seems, the whole enterprise has been disrupted “after a large number of online worshippers logged in as Satan and shouted expletives.”
Church wardens are on duty with “smite buttons” to consign blasphemers to virtual hell. But some of the worst offenders are from the US and Australia and visit in the middle of the night, when the wardens are asleep. Hackers have broken in disguised as wardens, sworn at the congregation or greeted newcomers by saying “Satan loves you”.

Perhaps an i-shul isn’t such a good idea after all.....

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