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Confession: There's an iPhone App For That
slshwtw writes "Pope Benedict XVI has recently encouraged priests to blog and promoted Christian Netiquette. Now apparently the Roman Catholic church has sanctioned a 'Confession App,' available through iTunes for $1.99. Apparently it doesn't replace 'traditional,' in-person confession, but walks one through the process, even suggesting sins you may wish to confess."'
but walks one through the process, even suggesting sins you may wish to confess.
Like a checklist?
Have you sodomized a child? (Y/n)
Have you coveted your neighbour's wife? (Y/n)
Have you murdered an infidel? (Y/n)
Martin Luther is spinning in his grave.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Is it a cloud app?
Please, people. Ha, ha, funny. RTFA.
"[T]he new app doesn't replace traditional confession. You still have to go to a priest for absolution. ... It leads you through an 'Examination of Conscience' to help you figure out what your real sins are -- and not just by retreading your run of the mill 10 Commandments."
In sacramental preparation, Roman Catholics are taught to privately undertake an examination of conscience before entering the confessional. This is just, shall we say, an expert system for the process.
You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!
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Clever way of calling iPhone users idiots who couldn't possibly find utility in a particular device. Kudos on the subtle troll. Much better than comparing Jobs to the Pope. Or to Job.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
[If you're Catholic] isn't an iPhone kinda incompatible with your religion?
No. A particular persons decision to purchase an iPhone given other uses of the money may or may not be prudent, and certainly might be influenced by any number of sins, but the iPhone isn't inherently incompatible with Catholicism.
It's a large, unnecessary expenditure of money and resources when there are millions of poor.
Catholic teaching does not prohibit purchasing expensive items which are not essential to survival.
Plus it's a status symbol
Purchasing an iPhone out of vanity would certainly be sinful, but the fact that society treats it as a status symbol does not make the device itself inherently sinful.
The CoS app for iPhone was "I'm rich".
As I keep saying, if God didn't want me to covet my neighbour's ass, He wouldn't have given her such a magnificent ass ;)
You sure ? After all this is the guy who put a fruit tree in the middle of a garden and put a "do not eat" sign on it. He's a bit of dick like that.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
I am the electrono-priest. Please, describe your problems. Each time
you are finished talking, type RET twice.
Forgive me father, for I have sinned.
Tell me something about your family.
They aren't talking to me anymore.
Why do you say they are not talking to you anymore?
Just what I said. They don't speak with me.
What makes you believe that?
Empirical evidence?
Maybe your plans have something to do with this.
What plans are you talking about? I didn't mention plans.
I don't understand.
That makes two of us.
Is it because makes two of us that you came to me?
Hey you're the priest. Who should I go to, Steve Jobs?
Earlier you said makes two of us?
You heard correctly.
Is it because of your life that you are going through all this?
Tautologically speaking, I suppose my life is the reason I'm going
through anything at all.
How do you reconcile the people you hang around with?
I pay them. Can we get to the bit about my sins please?
You mentioned that makes two of us?
Father are you brain damaged?
You seem to dwell on your family.
Who is that back there?
I'll ask the questions, if you don't mind!
Ezra is that you? Oh for Christ's sake.