You've got these things...
Random kunfu name generator - http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/kungfu.html
Random crime fighter generator - http://www.black-ink.org/fightcrime.htm
It strikes me that a useful service would be a random dogma generator. If religious fruitcakes had access to such a service, they could just stop thinking altogether.
You could have a website where you enter in questions, like...
"Is religion a reaction of a human psyche reluctant to consider its own mortality?"
...hit a button, and it comes back with a randomly generated religious claptrap like...
"The road to salvation is by confession of he that is and was and will be the word and she who worships my banana is truly in for a good time."
What do you think?
I think a lot of people using this site would be interested.
Do you think I could make some cash out of it?
2006-12-04 23:25:46 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are several of those actively answering questions on Y!A as we speak... haven't you noticed?
2006-12-04 23:27:42 · answer #1 · answered by XYZ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Great idea!
I do see one risk - religion evolves, and the fast generation of new random religious dogma risks the development of new dogmatic religions.
If you go through with this, I think they should generally be shorter than the example you gave. It seems like the most persistent examples of silly religious dogma are things like "Man should not play God" and "We're persecuted, just as the Bible said we would be".
2006-12-04 23:31:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure!
Not only would it be funny, but it would show that a computer can come up with puerile clap-trap that is spoken every sunday from every pulpit in the world.
I for one would visit the site!
2006-12-04 23:28:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but wouldn't that put the priesthood out of a job?
Oh! ;-)
2006-12-04 23:53:50 · answer #4 · answered by Nobody 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋