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[...] "When I heard about it, I thought it was a joke. Vatican, hackathon—it didn’t add up," says John Franklin, a senior at Northwestern University who found out about VHacks, the event's official name, while participating in another hackathon in 2017. It wasn’t until he saw the event’s themes—creating technological solutions for encouraging social inclusion, promoting interfaith dialogue, and providing resources to migrants and refugees—that he realized it was not only real, but something he wanted to take part in. "I thought, ‘This is unique,’" he says.
And, apart from the unusual experience of hacking inside a room that dates back to 1490, it did prove to be special for Franklin. “At other hackathons, I’m creating, like, a shopping API or something for social media,” he says. “Here, I felt like my pitch means something to people.” Holy See, Holy Do
The Vatican's first-ever codefest came together last year after Jakub Florkiewicz, an MBA student at Harvard Business School, met the Reverend Eric Salobir, a founder of Optic, the first Vatican-affiliated think tank on technology, during a Harvard leadership summit in Rome. He and Salobir, who had already organized hackathons through Optic, began talking about putting one together in Vatican City.
Inside the Vatican's First-Ever Hackathon
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:42AM (1 child)
Silly Bot, we should have sent you to be hacked, erm, I mean, upgraded! Surely you know of Canon Law [vatican.va]? There was a reason, you should know, that no one expected the Spanish Inquisition! Your understanding of Islam is at a Christian evangelical fundamentalist level, and I fear your knowledge of Church (the Church Universal and Triumphant, the One True Church, Roman Catholic Church) is sorely lacking as well. Godless machines!
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday March 14 2018, @08:39PM
Canon law (which IIRC prevented forced conversion BTW) might be seen as against the separation between church and state (render unto caesar and stuff). But theoretically and practically since it happened, all you need is enough Christian dropping out to do with temporal power without needing a war. All of this without being fundamentally against the scripture.
The one problem with Islam instead, is not having a way out at a fundamental level. The exact opposite of christians who label you schismatic and take your pension away even when you think yourself still a Christian. ISIS trolls islam by taking it literally. This does not make all muslims worthy of the flames of hell automatically of course. (I'm in the caedite eos dept. so, not my problem really)
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