Kopimism

[bookworm]

Kopimism: the world's newest religion

This is either an incredibly elaborate loophole or an incredibly disturbed group of people.

[Jesus' Princess]

Oh My word, that is ridiculous. I hope thats a joke....

[bookworm]

Excerpts from statements by Kopimists:

“For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament.”

“The community of kopimi requires no formal membership, you just have to feel a calling to worship what is the holiest of the holiest, information and copy.”

[Catspaw]

It's definitely an elaborate loophole, but the sad part is that Sweden recognized it. But whatever. It's interesting, if nothing else.

[bookworm]

It’s just so bizarre. And a little disturbing if these people actually believe in worshiping ‘information’ like that.

But I don’t see how they could have been officially named a religion. A religion is by definition a set of beliefs concerning a deity, and Kopimism’s founder himself says they have no deity. It doesn’t work.
And they claim to believe that the Ctrl+C command is holy. If there’s no deity, how can something be holy? Things aren’t intrinsically holy or sacred, those traits come from a deity and are passed to things.
It doesn’t add up at all, this has to just be an elaborate ploy to get away with piracy on grounds of religious freedom.

[Whitty Whit]

Are you just trying to make a point, or is this religion for real?
We've had this faith for several years.

Hahaha.... lol that's such a cop-out of the question.

[Marvin D.]

"Download this in memory of me."

What the kree?

No deity, no. . .nothing. What's the point? >_>