I watched a video about a Baptist minister trying to find a Christian in Sweden. It’s amusing but not too surprising (he finds a Christian, but she’s not from there, he finds someone who believes in God, but he’s a Muslim), but then he finds someone who believes in Kopimism—a religion in which copying is sacred.
Kopimism made simple:[9]
All knowledge to all; The pursuit of knowledge is sacred; The circulation of knowledge is sacred; The act of copying is sacred . According to the Kopimist constitution:[10]
Copying of information is ethically right; Dissemination of information is ethically right; Copymixing is a sacred kind of copying, more so than the perfect, digital copying, because it expands and enhances the existing wealth of information; Copying or remixing information communicated by another person is seen as an act of respect and a strong expression of acceptance and Kopimistic faith; The Internet is holy (Not generally accepted by churches run by the Maesters); Code is law.
I will hazard a guess that actually some people he went up to in the street were Christians—but they didn’t make it into the actual programme. Sure, Sweden isn’t very religious. But if the figures in Wikipedia are to be believed, about 18% of Swedish citizens believe in a god, whereas somewhere between 1% and 5% are Muslims (and I bet the Kopimists are way, way, way under 1%; I bet the Kopimist wasn’t encountered in random vox-pop interviews).
I watched a video about a Baptist minister trying to find a Christian in Sweden. It’s amusing but not too surprising (he finds a Christian, but she’s not from there, he finds someone who believes in God, but he’s a Muslim), but then he finds someone who believes in Kopimism—a religion in which copying is sacred.
Kopimism made simple:[9]
All knowledge to all;
The pursuit of knowledge is sacred;
The circulation of knowledge is sacred;
The act of copying is sacred
.
According to the Kopimist constitution:[10]
Copying of information is ethically right;
Dissemination of information is ethically right;
Copymixing is a sacred kind of copying, more so than the perfect, digital copying, because it expands and enhances the existing wealth of information;
Copying or remixing information communicated by another person is seen as an act of respect and a strong expression of acceptance and Kopimistic faith;
The Internet is holy (Not generally accepted by churches run by the Maesters);
Code is law.
I will hazard a guess that actually some people he went up to in the street were Christians—but they didn’t make it into the actual programme. Sure, Sweden isn’t very religious. But if the figures in Wikipedia are to be believed, about 18% of Swedish citizens believe in a god, whereas somewhere between 1% and 5% are Muslims (and I bet the Kopimists are way, way, way under 1%; I bet the Kopimist wasn’t encountered in random vox-pop interviews).