When the forces of religion meet the unmovable object that is advancing technology, a crash is inevitable, and sometimes they’re interesting enough to warrant a mention here.
Take the Prayer Toolbar as an example. Your church or organization runs a prayer server that you integrate with your church’s website. Parishioners can log onto the site and request that other members of the congregation pray for them. These other members, if they’ve installed the Prayer Toolbar, will have live, streaming prayer requests appear in their browsers, just below the address bar.
While I personally feel religion is just plain silly talk, I have to admit that this is a very, very clever use of the Internet, and I feel that the group that came up with it is going to make a nice tithe in the near future.
Prayer Toolbar [Product page, via SLOG]
Nice idea… I agree with you Matt but I won’t be installing this on my browser anytime soon. How about just doing a “blanket prayer” for everybody once a century instead of constantly being bothered by strangers wanting prayers while visiting the net.
No wonder God doesn’t answer these things, he has more important things to do like solving global warming and making sure a comet doesn’t hit Earth again! ;-)
Jon
Couldn’t god just answer everyone’s prayers, all the time? And does it work with Firefox, the Jesus of browsers?
One day conservatives will have blogs. They might even use Macs…
Sure hope I’m behind this author on Judgment day and see the look on his face.
Does this mean Jesus now accepts prayers via e-mail?