yenni Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Nabbed from News of the WeirdThe Web site InformationAgePrayer.com offers, for people too busy to speak to God themselves, a daily service of invocations (using voice-synthesizing software) for Catholics, Protestants, Jews or Muslims. Starting each day "reciting" the Lord's Prayer (or the Islamic Fajr) is $3.95 a month. Hail Marys are 70 cents a day for 10. A Complete Rosary Package is $49.95 a month. Each prayer is voiced individually, according to a March report on LiveScience.com, with the subscriber's name on the screen, and for Muslim prayers, the computer's speakers point toward Mecca. [LiveScience.com, 3-25-09]Thoughts on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest missingsomething Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Nabbed from News of the WeirdThoughts on this?This will get you no where. I dont believe any good can come to someone who is "too busy" to pray for themselves. Without the sincerity of prayer, the words are pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yenni Posted May 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 It reminds me of the middle ages where people had to pay the clergy to abolish their sins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxel Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 It's priestcraft; it's blasphemy; it's despicable sin and those who run these services are in serious danger of hellfire- especially if they have any inkling of how the kingdom of God operates. I can't really find the words to paint this as dark as I think it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pam Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Yeh I have thoughts on this. It's ridiculous, absurd, bizarre, contemptible, ludicrous, preposterous, outrageous, foolish, and laughable. Did I say I think it's stupid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefche Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Can anyone point me to a website that can provide a personal service? I have a friend that has to use the bathroom alot. It interupts her day. Isn't there a website that can go to the bathroom for her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwen Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 i will go pee for her. payment must be made in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scdoyle Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 .50 cents for a #1, but a #2 will will run $2 each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faded Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 Reminds me of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams.The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. So the Monks were built with an eye for originality of design and also for practical horse-riding ability. This was important. People, and indeed things, looked more sincere on a horse. So two legs were held to be both more suitable and cheaper than the more normal primes of seventeen, nineteen or twenty-three; the skin the Monks were given was pinkish-looking instead of purple, smooth and soft instead of crenellated. They were also restricted to just the one mouth and nose, but were given instead an additional eye, making for a grand total of two. A strange-looking creature indeed. But truly excellent at believing the most preposterous things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarnished Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Dang Faded, you stole my post. However you did error in your quote, there is much between the first paragraph and the second, thus you need an elipse... It is probably good we are married as we think so much alike. This service reminds me a whole lot of the Electronic Monk, something to pray for you so that you do not have to spend your time praying. It is ridiculous, but the fact that it is out there means there are people who are just lazy enough to use it. Saddening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faded Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Dang Faded, you stole my post. However you did error in your quote, there is much between the first paragraph and the second, thus you need an elipse...It is probably good we are married as we think so much alike.This service reminds me a whole lot of the Electronic Monk, something to pray for you so that you do not have to spend your time praying. It is ridiculous, but the fact that it is out there means there are people who are just lazy enough to use it. Saddening.If you can offer up a more complete version of Douglas Adams' description of the Electronic Monk, by all means do so. It's great stuff!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 The Catholics have cloistered nuns who do nothing but pray for other people all day long. My grandmother had monthly donations to the cloistered nuns to pray for my "lost soul" in the hopes that I will find my way back to the Catholic faith. I guess it's not too different from the electronic version... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztodd Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 "Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be churches built up that shall say: Come unto me, and for your money you shall be forgiven of your sins."Mormon 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 It makes me ponder the term "Religious Entrepreneurs". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antsyl Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 Wow!!! Im missing a golden opportunity here. Ok, for $19.95 you can get my absolution for your sins, but wait, dont call yet. For just $10.00 more I will include a pet. I know that you know your dog or can has been bad. Add just that little $10.00 and get them out of hell. This offer is good in all fifty states and three foreign countries. Those countries always include the one you are in if you are not in the US. If you act now, I will include a small piece of paper that I personally have ripped from my spiral binder just for you. Call now operators are standing by. All major credit cards accepted. Cash if in Euros will be based on the daily value. Call now, salvation is waiting and so are the operators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatima Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 The Catholics have cloistered nuns who do nothing but pray for other people all day long. My grandmother had monthly donations to the cloistered nuns to pray for my "lost soul" in the hopes that I will find my way back to the Catholic faith. I guess it's not too different from the electronic version...Well, excepting that the good nuns had devoted their lives to prayer and your grandmother's donation was a voluntary act of charity. The sincerity of the prayers of those who require payment before they will pray for you is in serious question.So the act of buying the prayers is what is at issue, not that one person is praying for another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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