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Lots Of People Are Learning The Religious Definition Of "Prior" Thanks To Today's NYT Connections Groups
8.9.2024
Happy Sunday, puzzlers! We are 100 percent ready for some football. It’s Week One of the NFL season, but maybe that’s not your jam, especially if you’re a 9-year-old who’s beyond geeked up for the Minecraft movie. And if you’re older than that and still geeked up for the Minecraft movie, well...
Twisters In 4DX Is A Religious Experience
18.7.2024
Twisters, the sequel to the 1996 storm-chasing action film Twister, is out now in select theaters, with a full-blown release coming July 19. Some of those select theaters include Regal’s 4DX showings, which are highly immersive experiences where the seats move, shake, and tilt, water sprays in your...
Religious leaders debate going to church in the metaverse
12.5.2024
With the Pope sounding off on AI recently, the discourse surrounding religion and technology has heated up
New Religious Cryptos Pump - Are They Scams? God, Mary, Baby Jesus Coins Top Crypto Gainers Today
22.5.2023
Three new meme coins with a religious theme were listed on Uniswap today, May 22nd - $GOD, $MARY and $BABYJESUS - making the top crypto gainers list on DEXTools.
Each has a low DEXTscore and some warnings under the contract details section of their DEXTools links - exercise caution when buying...
Religious services move to metaverse amid COVID-19 concerns
9.2.2022
According to DJ Soto, the future of churchgoing is in the metaverse because "it reaches people who can't physically go to church."
Indonesian Religious Organization Issues Decree Forbidding Use of Crypto by Country’s Muslim Population
21.1.2022
Indonesia’s Tarjih Council and the Central Executive Tajdid of Muhammadiyah have issued a fatwa (decree) stipulating the illegality of cryptocurrency use or investment by the country’s Muslims. The fatwa points to the volatility as well as the lack of state backing as reasons...
Islamic Organization in Indonesia Issues Fatwa Against Cryptocurrency
28.10.2021
A provincial branch of one the largest Islamic organizations in Indonesia has declared cryptocurrency “haram,” or forbidden under religious law. The decision came after a “heated discussion” joined by a crypto expert who was invited to explain in detail the practice...
Ugh, Nazi-Themed Host Bar Opens In Osaka
13.10.2021
At host clubs, men serve customers their drinks, light their cigarettes, and make small talk with them. At a newly opened one in Osaka, they also dress as Nazis. That’s pretty fucked up. The name of the bar is Unfair, and its tagline is, “Life is a bet.” Reddit spotted a truck driving through Osaka...
Red Dead Player Gets Famous For 'Killing' KKK Racists Online
5.8.2021
A man creeps up to a group of cowboys who are dressed in white from head to toe. They’re all wearing hats—pointy ones. In the background, a remixed folk song plays. Right as the beat drops, the man shoots them down one by one, in style. As the video captions tell it, these aren’t just any Red Dead...
Buddhist Swastika Removed From Anime Tokyo Revengers
21.7.2021
Tokyo Revengers is about a youth toughs in the Tokyo Manji Gang. The manji symbol (卍), the Buddhist swastika, appears on the Japanese-language manga title and throughout the original anime. It has been removed from the anime’s English language release, apparently because it might cause confusion...
Religious Ban on Cryptocurrencies Provokes Social Media Reproach in Ingushetia
29.5.2021
A decision by a prominent religious body in Ingushetia to prohibit dealings with cryptocurrency has sparked controversy in the predominantly Muslim Russian republic. Critics have taken to social media to express their disagreements with the ban, pointing out that the treatment of bitcoin in Islamic...
Would You Ever Get A Video Game Tattoo?
8.2.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Sharia Compliance in Bitcoin – What It’s All About, and Why Exchanges Like Beldex Seek Muslim Traders
29.2.2020
Money is a critical part of everyone’s life, and for the religious it is even viewed as a matter of eternal consequence. While those on the outside may be unaware of the importance finance takes on in circles of faith, these beliefs nonetheless affect and impact the businesses and economies...
Iran, Turkey, Malaysia Discuss Creating Unified Muslim Cryptocurrency
21.12.2019
At a summit attended by leaders of Muslim countries, including Malaysia, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, and Indonesia, the Iranian president proposed creating a Muslim cryptocurrency to cut reliance on the U.S. dollar. The Malaysian prime minister supports the idea of a unified cryptocurrency for Muslim...
Crypto Secularizes Wealth by Returning Power to the People
5.11.2019
Secularization is the process of converting something from a religious status to a nonreligious one. In its usage here, the word “religious” has no necessary connection to a deity. The word refers to the mystification of a thing in order to elevate it to the status of the divine where...