Cyberpunk's Prayer

(By: Bill Scarborough)

"Our Sysop,

Who art On-Line

High be thy clearance level.

Thy system up,

Thy program executed

Off-line as it is on-line

Give us this logon our database

And allow our rants,

As we allow those who flame against us,

And do not access us to garbage,

But deliver us from outage.

For thine is the System and the Software

and the Password forever."

(O'Leary, Stephen D. 2004 "Cyberspace as Sacred Space" in Dawson, Lorne L. and Cowan, Douglas E., Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet, London: Routledge).