Friday, 6 February 2015

Acceptance of Paganism in the UK workplace

At my workplace, during my lunch break just now, I conducted a quick experiment.


As is advisable for any company, the one I work for has a firewall to prevent undesirable use of the internet.


I did some Google searches and recorded these rather interesting results.


Search term "Jesus Christ"
mormon.org = not blocked
lds.org = not blocked
whoisjesus-really.com = not blocked
christiananswers.net = not blocked
newadvent.org = not blocked


Search term "Islam"
islam-guide.com = not blocked
al-islam.org = not blocked
islamreligion.com = not blocked
islamicity.com = not blocked
islam101.net = not blocked


Search term "Judaism"
jewfaq.org = not blocked
liberaljudaism.org = not blocked
reformjudaism.org.uk = not blocked
masorti.org.uk = not blocked
thejc.com = not blocked


Search term "Paganism"
paganfed.org = BLOCKED


Now, I accept that the other four pagan websites I checked were allowed. But why block the website of the most official organisation in UK paganism? Well, the response that comes straight from the horse's mouth, is:


"Sites that provide information about non-traditional religious beliefs and practices."


Seems like a very authoritarian, pro-establishment reason to censor something...


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