And the Lord said unto Sony, '01101000 01100...'
By Thomas Ricker 
posted October 28th 2008 5:05AM
posted October 28th 2008 5:05AM
"The voice of the Divine Word must resonate over the radio, on Internet channels with virtual distribution (and by) CDs, DVDs and iPods, and on television and cinema screens."The implied message here is very clear: God hates the Blu-ray.
Wow, lots of people this morning who are afraid to think for themselves so they spew anti-religious bigotry.
It's depth of thought along the lines of a child's wading pool. Repeat a few memes and ignore that some of the greatest thinkers in the world were not anti-religious. (Different than religious!) Only people who threatened rave with such vitriol without any rational basis for it.
No surprise there.
As for God doesn't like Blu-ray. Did you kind of miss that television part? They just didn't mention it because the discs are flat, and flat reminds them of a bad decision they made some hundreds of years ago - something they just rectified in the last century. Sure there's a lot of strange and weird things in the religious world. It's made up of people, what did you expect?
'Wow, lots of people this morning who are afraid to think for themselves so they spew anti-religious bigotry.'
Wow, and another bunch of people who are afraid to think for themselves so they believe what the men in dresses tell them.
It was thinking for myself that helped me escape the oppressive chains of a religious upbringing. Probably explains why I'm so vehemently opposed to it now. Must apologise for my vitriol but it took me years to ditch the mind-control and I feel angry when confronted by it.
You can't have a rational discussion about an irrational subject.
What? Why did the lord say "h"?
Did anyone else notice in the URL bar of this article that it says "and-the-lord-said-unto-satan-01101000-01100/2#comments". Is engadget saying Sony is Satan now?
What do you mean, "now" ?
There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that will burn for eternity in the fires of hell.
The church of emacs looks down on these shenanigans
Wake up Catholics. Some of this technology has been around for years (i.e. satellite comms.), other denominations are way ahead of you if until now you are decree-ing it. "Welcome to the party, pal!"
Wow. So many haters here. It's actually funny to read all the anti-religion hostility. So much paranoia. I don't see how putting the bible or religious material on the radio, internet, cd's etc. is "shoving religion down your throat". You don't have to listen, read, download, buy, etc.
yeah, nothing like the fear and paranoia of the secular to motivate the masses to crusade and martyr themselves and...
oh wait.
Never mind shoving it down my throat, it's a waste of bandwidth/electricity. If the popes of history had had their way we wouldn't have an Internet.
That like saying neo-nazis are OK, because you don't 'have' to listen to them...
don't worry, Xenu will be back soon. muhahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
This discussion on religion is way off-topic and non-sense. You guys could just keep on it for days and just by a post by Ricker on Engadget (which started like a sony-hate post like those that engadget doesn't show very often...).
BTW: I could care less about christianity-based religions anyway; they defy my common sense and basic logic.
In other words: Feck, people aren't going to church as much anymore. Where are we going to get all of our money from. Ah-ha digital distribution of the Catholic Church with microtransaction tithes. Man am I a kick ass pope or what.
Rather than make a billion excuses for why the church wants to take a lot of peoples money, like saying we owe it to god to pay the church. Or my favorite "Spiritual Shoplifitng" where if you do not pay what the church thinks you should pay then you are stealing from god. One frickin church actually handed out a book that listed a family making $60k a year with a $600 per month tithe. What family makes $60k a year and has enough money left over to give $600 a month to the church.
Why don't they just come out and say, "We're really greedy and want your money". AT least then people would know that you can't really buy salvation. The church just wants your money to enrich itself. A lot of churches are just as filthy and the greed mongers on wallstreet.
You're my hero!
Great point of view
What do the Catholic Priests know about God anyways? They're all pagan priests, and have broken just about every single one of God's rules, it's pathetic to see them even speak about spreading the Word of God, when they don't even believe in it themselves!.
I love how those that claim they want nothing to do with religion seem to know so much about it...
atheism doesn't mean they want nothing to do with religion. it means they don't believe in a god/gods. it doesn't mean i'm unable to interest myself in what other people think. and it doesn't mean i can't keep an open mind and accept that other people believe in something other than me. i for one like to look on both sides of the arguments to be able to make an informed decision for my own choice of beliefs based on what i feel suits my life best.
we live in a world of diversity, people can believe what they want and shouldn't be forced to believe in something that they really don't deep inside. there are many good people in the world, regardless of their beliefs. religion has done some amazing and helpful things. it has also been abused many times as well. so as long as it's used for the right reasons, i don't think it's a bad thing
So does this mean there will be religious pirates now?
http://www.geocities.com/jwmetal@sbcglobal.net/arguing_over_internet.jpg
OLD, plus geocities still only allow 3 people to view a page per week, or something in that area.