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MICROSOFT Bids to Acquire Catholic Church

By Hank Vorjes

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- In a joint press conference in St. Peter's Square
this morning, MICROSOFT Corp. and the Vatican announced that the
Redmond software giant will acquire the Roman Catholic Church in
exchange for an unspecified number of shares of MICROSOFT common stock.
If the deal goes through, it will be the first time a computer software
company has acquired a major world religion.

With the acquisition, Pope John Paul II will become the senior
vice-president of the combined company's new Religious Software
Division, while MICROSOFT senior vice-presidents Michael Maples and
Steven Ballmer will be invested in the College of Cardinals, said
MICROSOFT Chairman Bill Gates.

"We expect a lot of growth in the religious market in the next five to
ten years," said Gates. "The combined resources of MICROSOFT and the
Catholic Church will allow us to make religion easier and more fun for
a broader range of people."

Through the MICROSOFT Network, the company's new on-line service, "we
will make the sacraments available on-line for the first time" and
revive the popular pre-Counter-Reformation practice of selling
indulgences, said Gates. "You can get Communion, confess your sins,
receive absolution -- even reduce your time in Purgatory -- all without
leaving your home."

A new software application, MICROSOFT Church, will include a macro
language which you can program to download heavenly graces
automatically while you are away from your computer.

An estimated 17,000 people attended the announcement in St Peter's
Square, watching on a 60-foot screen as comedian Don Novello -- in
character as Father Guido Sarducci -- hosted the event, which was
broadcast by satellite to 700 sites worldwide.

Pope John Paul II said little during the announcement. When Novello
chided Gates, "Now I guess you get to wear one of these pointy hats,"
the crowd roared, but the pontiff's smile seemed strained.

The deal grants MICROSOFT exclusive electronic rights to the Bible and
the Vatican's prized art collection, which includes works by such
masters as Michelangelo and Da Vinci. But critics say MICROSOFT will
face stiff challenges if it attempts to limit competitors' access to
these key intellectual properties.

"The Jewish people invented the look and feel of the holy scriptures,"
said Rabbi David Gottschalk of Philadelphia. "You take the parting of
the Red Sea -- we had that thousands of years before the Catholics came
on the scene."

But others argue that the Catholic and Jewish faiths both draw on a
common Abrahamic heritage. "The Catholic Church has just been more
successful in marketing it to a larger audience," notes Notre Dame
theologian Father Kenneth Madigan. Over the last 2,000 years, the
Catholic Church's market share has increased dramatically, while
Judaism, which was the first to offer many of the concepts now touted
by Christianity, lags behind.

Historically, the Church has a reputation as an aggressive competitor,
leading crusades to pressure people to upgrade to Catholicism, and
entering into exclusive licensing arrangements in various kingdoms
whereby all subjects were instilled with Catholicism, whether or not
they planned to use it. Today Christianity is available from several
denominations, but the Catholic version is still the most widely used.
The Church's mission is to reach "the four corners of the earth,"
echoing MICROSOFT's vision of "a computer on every desktop and in every
home".

Gates described MICROSOFT's long-term strategy to develop a scalable
religious architecture that will support all religions through
emulation. A single core religion will be offered with a choice of
interfaces according to the religion desired -- "One religion, a couple
of different implementations," said Gates.

The MICROSOFT move could spark a wave of mergers and acquisitions,
according to Herb Peters, a spokesman for the U.S. Southern Baptist
Conference, as other churches scramble to strengthen their position in
the increasingly competitive religious market.

:)

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PostPoslato: 02.03.2005. 21:46:15 
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Vito, bilo bi lepo kada bi stavio i link odakle si ovo preuzeo ili ako ti je neko poslao mail-om onda tako napisi - cisto da se zna kako si dosao do ovoga.

A moj komentar na tekst: :omg: :udri:

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u pravu si... sorry
preuzeto sa www.gnu.org

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ili jokes.com

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Ja mislim da je to LOSA investicija, jer kako stvari sada stoje ima vise korisnika Win-a nego hriscana! (koliko god to "neki" ne zeleli da priznaju)

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hmm... billi nema mnogo loših investicija.. siguran sam da zna šta radi... e sad.. što se tiče poređenja broja hrišćana i windowsa.. pa ne bih se kladio da je korisnika wina više.. podatak od pre pet godina iz glasa javnosti govori:
Citiraj:
Hrišćana više od dve milijarde

BEOGRAD - Prvi put u istoriji čovečanstva broj hrišćana prešao je broj od dve milijarde, piše u najnovijem broju dvonedeljnika Srpske patrijaršije "Pravoslavlje".

Hrišćani danas u svetu čine 33,2 odsto svetskog stanovništva, islam ispoveda 20 odsto (1,2 milijarde), a treća po veličini religija je hinduizam sa 770 miliona (12,9 odsto). Onih koji sebe nazivaju bezbožnima je 765 miliona, dok je budista oko 360 miliona. Takozvanoj prirodnoj religiji pripada oko 240 miliona stanovnika, a "pravim ateistima" 164 miliona.

Raznim grupacijama i sektama ("novim religijama") pripada 100 miliona ljudi. Slede Siki kojih je 26 miliona i Jevreji sa 15 miliona.

Među hrišćanima najviše (više od milijardu stanovnika) je rimokatolika. Na drugom mestu sa 367 miliona su protestanti, a slede ih pravoslavci sa 225 miliona i anglikanci sa 55 miliona.

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PostPoslato: 03.03.2005. 12:57:25 
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verujem da je najvishe poklonika istochnjachkih religija, zatim po brojnosti slede islamisti, a hriscani (i pravoslavci i katolici) su na 3. mestu... Prokko, sumnjam da su ti podaci koje si naveo tachni...

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A da pocnemo da brojimo :) , da utvrdimo istinu.

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Strategylover je napisao:
verujem da je najvishe poklonika istochnjachkih religija, zatim po brojnosti slede islamisti, a hriscani (i pravoslavci i katolici) su na 3. mestu... Prokko, sumnjam da su ti podaci koje si naveo tachni...

Velika je celina istocnjacke religije to je isto kao kad bi rekao zapadne religije(hriscanstvo+islam+judizam)
A kad bi se gledalo po pojedinacnim verama stvarno ne znam .... kojih ima vise .... Kinezi npr nisu vernici u vecini iako ima mali broj budista tako da je to pitanje koja religija ima najvise pripadnika (verovatno hinduizam ali je i to pitanje)


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