I’m not a big fan of censorship and I don’t like people telling me what to do– so I also have a problem with organized religion. So when I saw that some enterprising tech head had tried to breed the usefulness of Google with the uptight attitude of Catholicism, my curiosity was peaked. Don’t worry I kid the Catholics because I am one. Okay a lapsed one, but Monty Python pretty much hit the nail on the head:
I’m a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics is
They’ll take you as soon as you’re warm.
Given my background I was kind of excited to see what this “new” Google held in terms of helping save my troubled soul. So I went through the disclaimer:
Catholic search engine powered by Google striving to provide an easy to use resource to anyone wanting to learn more about Catholicism and provide a safer way for good Catholics to surf the web.
CatholicGoogle is powered by Google using “safe search” technology, it produces results from all over the internet with more weighting to given to Catholic websites and eliminates the vast majority of unsavoury content, such as pornography. The site is not associated or affiliated with Google.com, we work closely with Google to help ensure that the adverts are not objectionable in nature, however, some of the results and adverts that are displayed may not be in line with Catholic doctrine and we do not endorse of any of the results or adverts displayed on Catholic Google.
So now I know there is no “super” or even “spiritually enhanced” technology at work here. To put it through its paces, I did some free word association with a few items I put into the search engine. The results would have made me go to confession and had the nuns howling in disgust.
Test 1: Schoolgirl
- Number two on the results was this fun game called Unholy Army of Catholic School Girls
Test 2: Monty Python (I figured it would be blocked, considering the nature of their comedy)
- Number one on the results was a You Tube video of the Every Sperm Is Sacred dance sequence from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
At this point I am very disappointed. So I try a few more topics I’m sure would be verboten.
Father Ted: Got me links to clips of Father Ted. If you’ve seen the show, then you know its not kind to Catholicism.
Lucy Daughter of the Devil: Same thing as above. Clips to the show.
Eric Cartman: Wow. Again clips.
Call me crazy, while none of the stuff I looked up was porn, shouldn’t it be considered objectionable by Catholic standards. If this were Mythbusters, we would say that the myth of CatholicGoogle is BUSTED.
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Well, based on your search results, and my own 12 years of Catholic education, I can only conclude that this “Catholic Google” site was created by the Jesuits.
Now, now it couldn’t have been the Jesuits. You can call the Jesuits many things– intolerant, dictatorial, and dogmatic. But they do run the Vatican astronomical observatory and hold other scientific posts– they could figure out some html and search codes. I think you need to dump this mess at the foot of the Cistercians.