Google censoring Google street view

In the paper edition of DN I read about a man who had seen a well equipped cherubs on a house in Stockholm when he was out walking one day. He wanted to show it for his wife and opened Google streetview by editing : Norrbackagatan 22, 113 41 Stockholm, Stockholms län on the wall you can only see two gray blurred circles. He was astonished and looked at the same place (Norrbackagatan 22, 113 41 Stockholm) with hitta.se. There he could show his wife the picture. Another blogger read the paper too. He checked an address were there are swastikas on the door, from the 1910^th, before the Nazis. That swastikas were not blurred.

How does Google think? Some art with a little to long penis on the wall, from the beginning of the 20^th century are censored, but not a swastika from the same age? Which is the most disgusting, an attribute for love and making children or an sign that stands for 10^th of millions of dead and tortured?

In my opinion none should be censored, but my guess is that the owners of Google have an own agenda. I hope I am wrong here and that is is just a mistake that seems to make them look pro-Nazis. Is it the Christian right in the US that stands for their puritanism or the Catholic church, who are well known for having helped Nazis to escape to South America and therefor are guilty for a lot of the torture that these people did in the name of the dictatorships? Can someone give me and the readers a clue of how they think?

Sex and politics

Again the republican election makes scandals. This time it is about Newt Gingrich. I know nothing about his political ambitions, so I will not touch that here.

What I know something about is sex and Gingrich.

According to CNN his ex wife said yesterday in an interview that he wanted to have an open relationship. That will be the issue for today.

I am divorced. I have a new wonderful love. Nothing strange with that in Sweden, but if I lived in a place where the Christian right or the Catholics were strong they would say I am a sinner.

Gingrich is where the Christian right is very strong now. Being divorced is not good for them looking in the Bible.

The other problem by being divorced is that you have an ex-something. Even if you divorce in a nice manners sooner or later jealousity that your former loved one has a new lover will make you say and do things not worthy an adult. I know it, I am divorced, and now Gingrich notices it too. His ex wife did not like that he found a new beloved one while she still loved him. Now she has the chance to get her revenge.

Lets look at the open relationship now.

Isn't that a private thing if they discussed that? A lot of couples have open relationships, and that is not my or any one else's business. She didn't like the idea and he accepted by divorcing her and choosed his new wife. Fine, lets get over it. It is a big difference between “open relationship” and “bomb Iran, start a war” like  Rick Santorum  wants to do. I feel pity for Newt maybe loosing for this reason (love) while his opponent Santorum wins because of war

Lets look at sex now.

How a person have sex, with one or two persons at the same time or with a man or woman, that is their private stuff (as long as it is not child abuse or rape). Noone else are allowed to interfear in that. To loose an election because you had sex with your wife to be is sick. Lets hope that the US understands that (they won't he will loose).

Hypatia- Christian censorship victime

Old news
Hypatia was murdered by christian monks in a riot in Alexandria year 415. She was working in the Library of Alexandria until the pope Theophilus ordered it's destruction, he is now a saint in the coptic church. When the pope died Cyril became pope after his uncle. He ordered massacres of jews and pagans, and where in a conflict with the roman prefect, how had Hypatia as his advisor and philosophy teacher. That made Cyril trying to get her out of the way by all means, until he started a small riot so that monks attacked Hypatia on her way home, stripped her naked and dragged her through the city to a Christian tempel were they skinned her with tiles and then cut her body in parts. Finally they burnt her body. Cyril is a saint in most of the Christian churches, and one of the church fathers according to the Catholics.

That's history and fact, but how does that affect us?
2009 a great epic Spanish movie, Agora, went in the cinemas in most European countries telling this story, and it became the most visited spanish movie in Spain that year.. It was broadcasted in Swedish television this week. When the end of the movie came with the death of Hypatia (not showing all the cruellity made by the monks), my beloved one cried out load in the sofa next to me. She could not understand why and how, and she is a student of theology and christian history- knowing her subjects.

Censorship
In Spain the catholic defens group Observatorio Antidifamación Religiosa wrote an open letter how the movie where raising hatred against Christianity and reinforcing false clichés about the Catholic church. When the director Amenábar responded that he wanted to say the movie was against those who kill in the name of their god the group responded "Why didn't you make a movie about the Middle East (the muslims they ment)?". Hey are we supposed to hide the truth here? That is facts, written by christian bishops during the time it happened.


In the US they did not want to buy the movie claiming it "was to intellectual and heavy". A silly claim. making US citizens look stupid by their own leaders (I know that is not true, not my friends there anyway...) The real reason seems to be the religious causes too. The companies where affraid to buy it, making the right fanatics of christianity in the US angry, and then loosing a lot of money. Maximum of theatres showing the movie duing a weekend in 2010 (the year they showed it there after a year of censorship) was 17. Only 17 in all of the US of A! What a terrible shame.


The coptic church, what did they do? Well, they stopped the movie from being shown in Egypt and poor Hypatias hometown Alexandria by claiming it "is an insult of the religion". Of course they say so, their saints real faces would be shown for the masses, scary to show that even christians have killed lika that?


School
I lika Hypatia. I use to show her as a good example, while teaching, of a woman scientist struggling because her sex, but being one of the best. She and Marie Curie will help the girls to find good examples that they are as good, or better, than the boys. That girls are ment to study math and science too!!!


May Hypatia not be a brick in a religios fight about a religion she did not even believe in. She believed in philosophy!

How many Gods is there in the Catholic belief?

I was brought up in a Lutheran home. My wife 2b comes from a catholic country.
She is studying at THS, Stockholm school of Theology, that means she has left the catholic church and now studies Christian religious history.
That is a very interesting subject, so I read just for fun too some of her literature. When we spoke about Luther and the ten Commandments we came in a dispute.
She did not understand what I was saying about the first! (Free translation, NOT from goggle translate:"You shall have no ther Gods than Me!")

Thats not right she said, it is "You shall put no other Gods in front of Me!".

After a small discussion we entered Wikipedia, and to her native language about the ten Commandments, spanish: "Amarás a Dios sobre todos las cosas"
That means "God above everything" nothing that there is only one!
Strange, I thought, and looked in english.
According to this catholic link it is:
"I am the Lord your God, you shall not have strange gods before me!"
Before me...Doesn't that mean in front of me? I translated into Swedish with google translate. It translated like I wrote before, but when I changed "gods" to "cars" it translated "in front of me"...
Even this link, commenting on how the catholic church tries to change the gospel (by changing the day of the sabbath which was foreseen in the Bible in Daniel 7:25), writes the same. (this is who that link belongs to: a remnant church. I do not say anything if they are good or bad, I do not know, but they wrote interesting there)

I know we have the same Bible, and if you read there you surely can see all Christians only have one God, but Luther had a good point in really writing that.
He saw how the catholics were praying to saints and reliques, just like they had devine powers. He saw people drinking "holy water". In his eyes it looked like those things where like sub-Gods, minor gods. You still may see that for example in South America were the drivers are saluting to all the crosses over people killed in accidents to make the spirit help them to a safe journey.

What is right and what is wrong? If you wonder, no matter what religion you are (or atheist and agnotic), look in the Bible yourself. The truth, what the Christians (and Jews) shall belive in, is written there (but if they are right about only one god, that is another question)