Disgusting
I have no love of religion but I hope he gets excommunicated for this idiocy.
A London clergyman has brought a medieval ceremony of the Church of England into the 21st century by blessing his flock's smartphones, laptops, and iPods. The Revd Canon David Parrott of The City's 17th-century St Lawrence Jewry church told The Times that he wanted to update the ancient tradition of Plough Monday, when farmers …
Get a grip on yourself, dude. As I see it, there are only three possibilities here:
1. God doesn't exist -- in which case the vicar's action is silly but harmless.
2. God exists, but doesn't care about humans' daily lives -- in which case the vicar's action is misguided but harmless.
3. God exists, and cares about humans' daily lives -- in which case the vicar's action is on target.
Why on earth get upset about something you neither care about nor believe in?
1. God doesn't exist -- in which case the vicar's action is silly but harmless.
2. God exists, but doesn't care about humans' daily lives -- in which case the vicar's action is misguided but harmless.
3. God exists, and cares about humans' daily lives -- in which case the vicar's action is on target.
4. God exists and is planning on performing blessings via the app store, just as soon as he can persuade jobs that iBless is an appropriate name... in which case the vicars on the wrong end of a lawsuit real soon.
God blessing is a petition that has attached no obligation on part of the deity in question. This simply means that God may or may not bless the target; we "assume" the target is blessed but we have no possibility to be sure.
Magic on the other hand is supposed to work always if the rituals and power of the performer are "real" and correct and no “magical counter attack” is performed by other party, like what geeks out there can recognize as protective spells.
That’s why magic can actually be easily falsified while religions like Christianity and Judaism can’t be subject to scientific process.
If I believed in God (which is still TBC) it would hardly offend me that the tools of my trade were blessed. In any case, I'd doubtless rather take a call from Him rather than T-Mobile customer services - so the vicar emphasising the point that He has a higher communication channel is perfectly sensible.
If I didn't believe in God, I'd be on PAYG with a workhorse Nokia. And I'd have no business taking issue with the vicars remarks.
It already does more than it fucking should (I mean, it's a phone, damn it!), and now we have to fuck things up by getting God involved.
Why aren't there more porn stars in that area, so he can bless all of their "working" implements? Who says God has a sense of humor (tough to have when you don't exist)?
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Did it, by any chance, burst into flames, and release a terrible, sulferous smoke, while the rafters echoed with the distant wails of the Damned?
Considering what I have to struggle with on a daily basis...that is the outcome I would have expected.
Regards
Dave Mundt
It seems harmless enough to me, and I don't really follow in the whole religion thing.
But why oh why do people feel the need to express their "intellectual superiority" by going off on huge rants about atheism. I mean presumably it's because you're better than those religious types who have to evangalise about their imaginary friend right?
Which is more or less what your'e doing thus making you just as bad. I mean seriously people get a grip, can't we all just get along?