neural online


 
 
 > News archive  > Neural Magazine  > Neural Station  
 > emusic  > new media art  > hacktivism  

Italian version

.hacktivism

13.11.03 Faith Converter, theologic plagiarism.
In this era of globalization of commerce and disneyfication of culture, religious differences are hard to tame even for a market which squashes every cultural reference. Faith Converter is a theological plagiarism program for Mac OS X which can convert the sacred texts of several of the most popular religions and ideologies. Full of sarcasm like Plug & Pray, another demonstration of the huge potential of software, this freeware contains fifteen religious points of view: Atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, Communism, Confucianism, Induism, Islamism, Juche, Linux, Maoism, Scientology, Shintoism, Taoism and Trotskyism. Every sacred text is converted in an exhilarating way, allowing a total interchangeability of principles. A methodic and inexhorable 'find and replace' which can revolutionize the original meaning, no matter how holy it is, in one of the most brilliant operations of automatic plagiarism ever made.