"Blessed art thou amongst search engines".It's all-knowing, everywhere at once, immortal, infinite, benevolent be·nev·o·lent adj. 1. Characterized by or suggestive of doing good. 2. Of, concerned with, or organized for the benefit of charity. , and it even answers the prayers of college students. U.S. Catholics likely visit its home more often than they go to church--perhaps even many times a day. It's Google. Those who are particularly devoted to the search engine can sing its praise (literally--to the tune of Jingle Bells Jingle Bells yuletide song composed by J. S. Pierpont. [Pop. Music: Van Doren, 200] See : Christmas ) at the Church of Google (thechurchofgoogle.org). They can also pray the "Hail Hail, city, Saudi Arabia Hail (hä`ēl, hīl), city (1993 pop. 176,757), N central Saudi Arabia. The city grew because of its location on a pilgrimage route from Iraq to Mecca. Google" and many versions of "Our Google," submitted by creative visitors who can become ministers of Googlism. Believers follow 10 commandments ("Thou shalt shalt aux.v. Archaic A second person singular present tense of shall. have no other search engine before me"), but beyond the superficial, the online church's similarities with real churches fall off. Most participants on the discussion boards say they reject traditional religion. |
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