GodBlock.com is a web filter that blocks religious content.
Oh my goodness, I’ve seen everything now.
There is an atheist web filter designed to protect you and your children from religious content, I kid ye not.
Here’s what they say about themselves:
What is it?
GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content. It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts, and from being indoctrinated into any religion before they are of the age to make such decisions. When installed properly, GodBlock will test each page that your child visits before it is loaded, looking for passages from holy texts, names of religious figures, and other signs of religious propaganda. If none are found, then your child is allowed to browse freely.
Why?
In the last century, the United States has seen a resurgence of fundamentalist religion. Fundamentalist Evangelicals, Mormons, Baptists, and Jews have held back progress in science, human rights, civil rights, and protecting our environment. How can we reverse this trend and join the rest of the world in the gradual secularization of society and government?
Most deeply religious people are born into their religion, but even children raised in a secular household are vulnerable to content on the web. That’s why we’ve produced GodBlock. GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content. It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts, and from being indoctrinated into any religion before they are of the age to make such decisions.
How extremist is this? They are as fundamentalist as the religious ilk they claim to be protecting their children from! I’ve never seen anything like this, I’m quite gob smacked.
Hat-tip Jim.
July 6th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Can we test whether this is genuine or not!?
July 6th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Funny you should say that Mouse, because I did have a sneaking suspicion about this, so I tried to download the filter and this is what it says:
So I’m left none the wiser…..
It might be a spoof, who knows at this point…..
July 9th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
And it’s about time- after the continuous propaganda shoved down childrens throats by god botherers it’s time that there was a way of protecting the innocent from this idiocy.
It gets a thumbs up from me!
July 10th, 2010 at 2:54 am
Oh dear. Please tell me this is a spoof… Why on earth we atheists should feel the need for such a ridiculous service such as this is beyond me. If it’s real, then I’d suggest the instigator needs to get out more!