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Another Monopoly Breakup

You'll never find things like this reported anywhere except at The Onion.

"The evidence introduced in this trial has convinced me that the deity known as God has willfully and actively thwarted competition from other deities and demigods, promoting His worship with such unfair scare tactics as threatening non-believers with eternal damnation," wrote District Judge Charles Elliot Schofield in his decision. "In the process, He has carved out for Himself an illegal monotheopoly."

Also, there's a great discussion over at Free Republic on this topic, e.g.:

Q: So re-incarnation is like those long return lines at Fry's Electronics?

Actually, reincarnation is nothing more than instantiating a new instance of a Soul Object. It's transparent. Most afterlives automatically handle Soul collection and recreation if that feature is enabled. You shouldn't have to programmatically call a delete(Soul mySoul) through incantation or sorcery in afterlives employing modern architectures.

and

I believe one of the main criticisms was God's strategy of "bundling" Salvation with the Dogma package. This definitely stifles competition. For instance, suppose I want an open-source Salvation solution -- I can't get that if I also want Dogma because most all vendors (Catholic and Protestant) have very strict licensing agreements that require them to only ship the standard Salvation product.

This makes it very difficult on third-party Paradise vendors. I applaud the ruling.

Posted by Rand Simberg at January 30, 2002 08:10 AM
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