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Smartphones Receive Holy Blessing
jeffmeden writes "Plow Monday is normally for blessing laborers and their tools; as the name suggests it is aimed at those who work the land. A church service in London, England Monday decided to go after a more modern audience: office workers and their modern communication gadgets. From the Times article: 'The congregation at St Lawrence Jewry in the City of London raised their mobiles and iPods above their heads and Canon Parrott raised his voice to the heavens to address the Lord God of all Creation. "May our tongues be gentle, our e-mails be simple and our websites be accessible," he said.'"
Does that make Slashdotting a site a Satanic ritual now?
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
It's that time of month again, kiddies. Patch now or be owned.
How is this not Idle material? Or better yet trash can material. Who cares what some inane irrelevant church is doing in whatever part of the world.
If you don't care, why did you post? Take your hateful bullshit elsewhere.
You define that as "hateful"?
I find your terrorist rhetoric distasteful and threatening. Why do you hate America?!?
See what I did there?
the public eye: Of businesS and was then disappeared
on ba3y...don't H0w is the GNAA
What the hell are you talking about? People with religious beliefs are one of the original nerds. For example, there are many Muslims who have memorised the entire Quran, word for word and could recite to you any verse on command, the same way some nerds can memorise the entire script of Star Wars Episode IV. Medieval Christian monks can spend years on end, nerdily copying and decorating manuscripts by hand. The word "canon" came from the Catholic faith and has been adopted by geeky Wookiepedia, Memory Alpha writers and basically any long-running TV show fans. Most of those said TV shows, especially sci-fi ones, have elements of Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Hindu etc. myths. Don't conflate nerdism and technophilia exclusively with atheism.
The Lord, Himself, has not created these modern commodities that we use today. How can one even *think* of calling upon our God with prayers about "emails" or "the Internet" and other man-made things. We shall pray for the well-being of ourselves and others, for forgiveness of sins, etc. In fact, the new testament tells us *how* we should pray..
"Our Father, who art in heaven. Hallowed by Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil..... For the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory are yours now and forever! Amen"
Carrie -The Christmas Angel
No, because samzenpus is fantastic compared to kdawson.