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Does this make Steve Jobs the AntiChrist? |
British church leaders are encouraging people to give up their iPods for Lent, instead of more traditional vices such as chocolate, to help save the planet.
The Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, and the Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, are among those calling for a carbon fast for Lent — a period ahead of Easter which Christians traditionally consider a time of penance and reflection — which begins on Wednesday.
As well as spending a day without using technology such as mobile phones or iPods, the 46 daily suggestions also include eating by candlelight, cutting meat and vegetables thinner so they cook faster and flushing the toilet less often.
Why not give up silly, medieval superstitions and make decisions about ethics and the environment a year round activity?
# 10 Gildersleeve said, “…give up things you either don’t need or aren’t really healthy … like candy bars, porn, and this website.”
Wh o saus porn isn’t healty? Excus mu mistkes. Hard ti type wit h one hamd.
#20 – Skeptic : Very good. Maybe you should give up song parodies for Lent? Better yet, give it up for lint. Get enough lint and you can weave useful things like earmuffs or reusable condoms. In smaller quantities, spitwads!
I have given up bishops for Lent. And pre-Lent and post-Lent.
iPod is fine. Radio. Video. Podcasts. No Agenda.
iPod: Good. Lent: Bad.
If ever there were an “anti-Christ”, it would be most Bishops. Cushy, insulated lives where all manner of perversion is allowed, protected and hidden. Bishops lead lives behind closed doors. Apparently this Christ guy did things in sunlight.
Well, in all honesty… While technology can bring us together, it can also push us apart. iPods give us the perfect excuse to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world, including our friends, families, or even perfect strangers on a bus.
These things do make us less social.
#24 This where Dvorak fills the social interaction void!
Not giving up the iPod. What is the alternative? Listening to the radio in my car? Not going to happen.
I am not Catholic, so I don’t celebrate Lent. However, I don’t mind the holiday. It means McDonalds fish sandwiches are on sale on Fridays and I can pig out and indulge during every Friday of the 40 day period. That must be the point of Lent: all you can eat Friday fish fries and such.
Why not give up silly, medieval superstitions and make decisions about ethics and the environment a year round activity?
Great idea!!
Does this make Steve Jobs the AntiChrist?
Steve Jobs is a Buddhist. The anti-Christ will likely be an atheist, even more likely an antitheist. How better to oppose the god of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religion than from a position outside of and opposed to any and all religions?
#10 “give up things you either don’t need or aren’t really healthy to begin with”…
I’m giving up religion for lent.
i say give up your religion for lent
and after that why not for ever ?
A man chooses a slave OBAYS
Lent is good you idiots.. Think Paczki on Fat Tuesday, think crazy drunken orgies called Marti Grass, where it takes you forty days of abstinence to sober up and get rid of the clap.
The best part of Christianity is Lent.
#27: The Antichrist will probably be one of these “prosperity theology” ministers that drive to their churches in stretch limos, to plead for more money to support their lifestyle. Next most likely are the priests that molest their servers.
#9: By the way, I gave up Catholicism for Lent 40 years ago. Welcome to the ever larger group of recovering Catholics.
And no, I’m not giving up my iPod for Lent.