By Slugsie, on May 22nd, 2009On my usual Stumbling round the inter-webs I came across a link to the Vatican’s own YouTube channel. With nothing better to do I thought I’d quickly pop over and have a little look-see – yup, I can be a glutton for punishment.
The very first thing that strikes you is that the channel home page looks very professional. No surprises there, the Catholic church is certainly rich enough to be able to afford at least a couple of highly qualified web designers.
The second thing I noticed is that all of the videos seem to have comments and ratings disabled. That seems to be a common tactic amongst the religious channels. They know full well that they’ll be called to task for basically all the falsehoods that they spout, so rather than try and come up with reasoned answers, just censor the whole thing to begin with. To me it’s just another sign that religion is way out of touch with modern society – which is all about sharing information and ideas – and is absolutely unable to stand a little well placed criticism.
I haven’t been able to watch any of the videos yet, I don’t have audio from my current location unfortunately. I expect that they’re all very professionally produced, and also full of absolute nonsense. If I’m at a loose end later today I’ll give one or two of them a watch and maybe comment back here.
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