The start of Religion 2.0

[sawyl]

Over a post-prandial tea in the cafe, vincel, doctor_squale and I managed to come up with a get rich quick scheme that will allow us to chuck in our drudge jobs at the Menagerie: dial-a-confessor. So, here's the pitch:

Imagine you're driving along minding your own business, no wait, you're a pedestrian walking along the pavement, yeah, sorry, I mean the sidewalk, that's it, when you step off the kerb into the incoming traffic and some crazy motorist, probably high on crack and liberal ideas, jumps the intersection and knocks you down. So, you're lying there in a pool of your own blood, you know your number's up and you're about to punch your ticket out of here when it hits you: you haven't had time to repent and confess your sins.

What're you going to do? Maybe you're in a strange city, maybe you haven't been to church in years, maybe you thought the whole God thing was phoney baloney but with your life flashing past your eyes, you realise you've got to act: you realise that you've got to get to priest and you've got to get to him fast. So, here's the clever bit: you flip out your cell and you punch up the number for dial-a-confessor, your call is routed to a call centre located just outside Ulaanbaatar, staffed by skilled, trained professional operators, who are poised ready to accept your call. The operator then takes your name and credit card details, and, following a short delay for authentication, uses your cell phone location to dispatch the nearest of our fully Vatican-certified priests to your position to hear your confession.

The whole process is guaranteed to take less than thirty minutes — if it takes longer than half an hour, then your costs are refunded and you get a free eulogy and requiem mass, which may or may not help with the whole eternal damnation thing — please see the small print for details.

What do you reckon? I reckon it's a dead cert. In fact, I'm so confident, I'm meeting up with a bunch of VCs tomorrow afternoon to see if we can't hook something up. I reckon we could start a revolution. A revolution I've already started to call Religion 2.0. Remember folks: you read it here first...