The Billiken's Bluff

Talib Kweli has a line in a song off his forthcoming album that goes- "It doesn't matter if you a Muslim, Hebrew, or your a Christian...Information is the newest religion." Well put. And conversely, religion appears to be the newest information, the newest pop up ad, the newest intrusive wesbite that attacks your internet explorer unprovoked.

Enter Aaron and his Bible Megasite. If you try and get to my website and type: www.billikenbluff.blogpsot.com you end up here. ***Check out this website at your own risk. I take no responsibility if you become a Born Again Christian***

It would be very easy to make some sarcastic remarks about Aaron, to point out some the more blatant contradicitions in his logic, to list some of the funnier fire and brimstone predictions his site makes, or to comment on the just how much of America buys into this type of Christianity. But, I'm not going to do that right now.

I'm just surprised that this Aaron character would try to trick people onto his site, by deliberately mispelling blogspot. I recall discussing a case in my Law and Society class last semester where a mother brought charges against a porn website that had a web address one letter off from Disney.com, something like Dinsey.com. She argued they were trying to lure immpressionable young children onto their porn site. Well I would argue that Aaron is trying to lure immpressionable young college students onto his Born Again site. Not cool Aaron, not cool. I expect a certain amount of insidious pop-up ads and intrusive advertisements when I go on the internet, but I don't expect this type of piracy of the Billiken Bluff's well respected name by Aaron and his Technicolor Bible Megasite.