Category Archives: Barmy sects

Holy Torrents

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Sweden has recognised the Church of Kopimism as a legitimate religion, making its rituals protected by Swedish law. The only problem is, “kopyacting”, peer to peer files sharing, often of pirated material, is one of the “rituals”. The church also holds Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V as sacred symbols.

I can’t quite decide which is sillier: the Swedish Church of Kopimism or the Anglican Church of Canada.

From here:

It was founded by 19-year-old philosophy student and leader Isak Gerson. He hopes that file-sharing will now be given religious protection.

“For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament. Information holds a value, in itself and in what it contains and the value multiplies through copying. Therefore copying is central for the organisation and its members,” he said in a statement.

“Being recognised by the state of Sweden is a large step for all of Kopimi. Hopefully this is one step towards the day when we can live out our faith without fear of persecution,” he added.

 

Apocalypse redux: world to end on Friday, October 21st

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This is excellent news: I’m on vacation until Friday, so now I won’t have to go back to work on Monday.

From here:

Doomsday preacher Harold Camping was left a laughing stock when his prediction that the world would end on May 21 failed to materialise.

But the 90-year-old Californian may well have the last laugh after revealing that date was in fact Judgment Day – a spiritual moment when the righteous would be chosen – and simply a warm-up for the Rapture which happens exactly five months later.

This means that Friday, October 21, will mark the start of the Apocalypse – when believers will be whisked away into heaven and hell will be unleashed on earth.

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Bed-ridden Camping, who suffered a stroke soon after ‘Judgment Day’, said: ‘We can be sure that the whole world [will be annihilated] on 21 October 2011.’

Russian sect thinks Vladimir Putin is St. Paul

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From here:

A sect worshipping Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has started up in the village of Bolshaya Yelnia near the Volga.

The sect was founded by a woman calling herself Mother Fotina, and she teaches that Putin was St Paul in his past life, and is now together with seven other reborn apostles fighting the antichrists, Interfax reported.

“According to the Bible, Paul the Apostle was a military commander at first,” the sect’s founder told Sobesednik.

“In his days in the KGB, Putin also did some rather unrighteous things. But once he became president, he was imbued with the Holy Spirit, and just like the apostle, he started heading his flock,” she said.

Mother Fotima is evidently undeterred by minor difficulties such as the contradiction inherent in a Christian saint being reincarnated or that it would be difficult to find a less saint-like evil bastard than the extravagantly pompous egotist, Vadimir Putin – although that must have been before Vlad fell off his horse and saw the light.