{"id":17340,"date":"2012-09-12T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17340"},"modified":"2012-09-12T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T21:31:08","slug":"the-mobile-phone-as-religious-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-mobile-phone-as-religious-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The mobile phone as religious experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone needs to worship something: we were designed that way by God \u2013 to worship him.<\/p>\n<p>In a secular age, what do creatures with a built-in urge to worship do with the urge?<\/p>\n<p>They worship their mobile phones: the preferred altar for most worshippers is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotquestions.org\/high-places.html\" target=\"_blank\">high place<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cupertino.org\/index.aspx?page=1107\" target=\"_blank\">Cupertino<\/a>, and the object of adoration, the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tim-cook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17341\" title=\"tim-cook\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tim-cook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And below we have one of the senior monks, Jony Ive, waxing eloquent on the <em>relationship<\/em> he and his order enjoy with their iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Richard Dawkins will buy one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBTI4jmHJGQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone needs to worship something: we were designed that way by God \u2013 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-mobile-phone-as-religious-experience\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[904,1539],"class_list":["post-17340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-iphone","tag-tim-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}