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The mobile phone as religious experience

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Everyone needs to worship something: we were designed that way by God – to worship him.

In a secular age, what do creatures with a built-in urge to worship do with the urge?

They worship their mobile phones: the preferred altar for most worshippers is the high place of Cupertino, and the object of adoration, the iPhone.

Today, the iPhone 5 was introduced to the devout; here you can see Apple high priest, Tim Cook, in an attitude of ecstatic supplication before an icon of his god:

And below we have one of the senior monks, Jony Ive, waxing eloquent on the relationship he and his order enjoy with their iPhones.

I wonder if Richard Dawkins will buy one.

What does book burning look like in the 21st Century?

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This:

A petition has been started to ban a ‘gay cure’ group’s iPhone app.

Christian group Exodus International claims that people can find “freedom from homosexuality” through prayer and practises conversion therapy.

Its iPhone app, which is free and available in the iTunes store, is “designed to be a useful resource for men, women, parents, students, and ministry leaders”.

It has received a 4+ rating from Apple, meaning it is deemed to have no objectionable content.

More than 6,500 people have signed a Change.org petition to call on Apple to remove it.