Posthuman Blues

Pontifical university to take on the devil

"A Vatican university said on Thursday it will hold a special 'theoretical and practical' course for Roman Catholic priests on Satanism and exorcism in response to what the Church says is a worrying interest in the occult, particularly among the young."

Here's a perfect example of a belief system in the act of perpetuating itself, obliviously unchecked by the so-called authorities. If you're not rolling your eyes at the implications of the above article, you're missing the delicious irony at work -- as are the rubes at the Vatican.