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Church pews nationwide were lit up this Easter weekend, and not just by the glow of so many churchgoers making their once-a-year appearances — iPads and smartphones were on plenty of parishioners’ laps, helping people follow along with the ceremonies. Congregants are feeling increasingly comfortable with using gadgets in church, and priests and ministers are condoning it.
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Gadgets, Rebecca Boyle, catholic church, church, easter, holidays, iPad, ipads, passover, smartphones, tablets“It's a tool to get closer to God on a weekly basis,” one churchgoer told the paper.
Some observers think modern, evangelical churches would be more open to using smartphones and tablets, the Tribune says. But the Catholic Church, too, has plenty of experience with gadgets and apps — there’s at least one app designed to help priests craft their sermons, another to help people write confessions, and Pope Benedict XVI is on Twitter.
There was a time when the only people allowed to play with toys in church were the children, skimming Matchbox cars along the pews while nibbling on Cheerios. But now it sounds like all the adults are doing it. Some might argue looking at the new iPad's retina screen is akin to a religious experience, so maybe it makes sense.
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My church has had wifi for a number of years already. People have used it for this sort of thing for a while, though some still do use it to check their facebook ;)
Overall it's nice to incorporate contemporary technology into a traditional message. It's actually pretty often that the pastor puts videos on the projector that help give an added dimension to the service.
Is it ok to mention GOD on POPSCI now?
Well, I am just asking! ;)
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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!
As long as it's relevant to popular science news articles and not mindless flaming (from either side of the argument), I see no problem with it. The problems come from the trolls who make borderline comment in hopes of starting a flame war. Which, for some reason, happens more on this website than anywhere else I frequent on the internet...
lol religion makes me laugh. first they called science witchery. than magic. but now they wanna look more "modernized" to fit in with the times so in turn allow science to coexist in their domain. its funny how they called aliens demons and called people that believed in other life outside of the earth crazy but now accept the possibility of life. anyone who falls for their lies is a mindless squid.
"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"
-Killah Priest
Dear dear JediMindset,
Oh how I have missed you. I like to see you comment. You often offer a new perspective of life, thank you. While I am religious, I am not wrapped in the human language. I find the human interpretation of things corrupts the original good message and then as time passes chaos begins.
But GOD is real and it is the human limitation that is the problem.
I think GODS are aliens and we have many GODS and many aliens and depending upon what side of the fence you are on, declare what is evil and good in human interpretation. Still, I also feel there is one GOD that is most powerful. And then again we have the other aliens doing all they do, anyways.
Which brings the premise the cosmos is most probably fill with a great variety of aliens and from different dimensions.
We are humans on planet Earth are such little ants on a gram cracker and for some about to be eaten.
I have to ask, why to the Catholic top religious folk, dress in the same style as the Egyptians GODS with the same style hat to amplify the head\brain?
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See life in all its beautiful colors, and
from different perspectives too!
@Space,
(Chariots of the Gods) look into it. the ancient people confused advanced technology with godlike abilities. so yes in a sense god can be aliens or aliens could "god". good question about the catholic church reptilian shape shifters trying to look like the ancient Egyptians. its funny because the Egyptians tried to look like the ancient astronauts. they also worship the "acorn"/third eye. they dont want us to use our third eye.
"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"
-Killah Priest
JediMindset,
I own the book (Chariots of the Gods). Yes, excellent book.
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Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!
So often, environments and manifestations happen together. It seems all but impossible for at least certain classes of circumstnaces to occur in isolation. Reagan likely would never have been able to spearhead the Reagan Revolution emphasizingthe "rank and file" existing only to make the obscenely rich obscenely richer if the majority still maintained any sense of self respect. But that had been eliminated by the New World Order manufactured "counterculture", leaving so many literal ambulatory dregs who could work mindlessly at tasks, but asked nothing more than CIA provided cartel drugs which deadened all that drove people to higher aspirations and left them just with the "munchies". Now, the trenchant attitude infiltrates even the church, not that it's so much a recent devcelopment. Look at the special picture placed to the side at the altar, Popw John Paul II. There were hundreds of popes, but the shallow and craven tools of the Catholic Corporation venerate, even worship, on;y John Paul II! He was a CIA spook, intended to use religion as an opiate of masses to destabilize Eastern Europe. And the malingerer who produced the icon in the photograph has the unmitigated gall to depict that operative of New World Order machination in the venue of the Divine Mercy of Jesus, of Sister Faustina! The rays of red and white, emanating form the heart of Christ! John Paul II has no more right to representation as "religious", much less a saint than the Vatican has to excommunicate someone because they question the validity of the "official story" of the "Holocaust"! But, then, so much anymore is just political in nature, and politics is nothing more today than the sham veneer to keep the dullards from realizing government exists only to make the obscenely rich obscenely richer. If the people is the chuirch weren't so addicted to bright moving images, they would realize this!
@julianpenrod,
interesting.......i heard that the new pope was a natzi and might be the antichrist.
"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"
-Killah Priest
jedimindset stop trying to start a flame war.
Want to use a good old hymnal in church? There's an app for that: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/baptist-hymnal-free/id465294957?mt=8
Rome, Romans, Roman Catholic Church.
Greeks and Romans create the foundation of our society today and have a definite love of power.
Well of your a Roman and it is a changing world and you have these Christians standing up for their faith in the coliseum, then it is time to become Christian too and lead with POWER.
“No one cannot get to heaven, unless you go through the Roman Catholic 'Priest' Church.”
Oh, Jesus saying God lives inside us all and this is all we need, we will just ignore that for now as it gets in the way of ROMAN power!
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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!