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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?
Eideard, that comment just made my day. Thanks!
And for those who follow the environmental religion: give up your ipod, iphone and all electrical devices. The electricity you’re consuming is generated from coal, natural gas and oil – which (you say) contributes to global warming.
I observe neither Lent nor the Ipod. But of course, I live in the Big Orange.
Don’t these a-holes have children they should be molesting?
“Does this make Steve Jobs the AntiChrist?”
I thought he already was.
After Lent, I never got anything back.
I will give up Lent for Lent!!
Skeptic, you should never have Lent anything to the church. It should be freely given, like your choir-boy virginity to the priest.
I gave up Catholicism for Lent over a decade ago, and what do you know, it stuck permanently!
Actually you’re supposed to give up things you either don’t need or aren’t really healthy to begin with, like candy bars, porn, and this website.
I would love to know the demographics of this blog. It might help explain the reflex hostility to religion. It can’t be explained by superior intellect alone 😉
Wouldn’t it make a bigger impact to the environment if, say, you installed a solar water heater than giving up your Ipod.
But now that I think about it, I’m constantly charging that damn thing up. Stupid, idiotic nonreplacable battery.
Had to Google ‘Lent’ and came up with ..” a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday..”
Which 40 weekdays?
Why 40?
What is Ash Wednesday?
I thought only Sunday’s were holy?
This is why I don’t do church and happy just being home.
Where I live (Vancouver, BC) everything is hydroelectricity. Not sure conservation of electric energy usage will be that effective at helping out the environment…
#14 Yeah because giant dams don’t have any impact on the environment right?
#11, “I would love to know the demographics of this blog. It might help explain the reflex hostility to religion. It can’t be explained by superior intellect alone ;-)”
So you’re saying that superior intellects push hostility? Does that make Bush a genius for invading Iraq then?
i’ve given up, giving up, for lent
wonder if the pope gave up his ipod for lent…
now if he really want s to make a sacrifice, let him give up religion for lent
I think he has lost it.
Listening to an mp3 player has got to be one of
the lowest power consumption things there is.
I might listen to religious music or audio bible.
Candles are fire hazards and how much energy does
it take to produce them? Less then just using a
dim bulb?
Under cooking meat might make you ill and not
flushing the toilet very often can’t be very
good or pleasant.
Oh… I suppose, in respect for our delicate atmosphere, I’ll could stop burning Bibles for Lent.
… but I’m not promising anything.
Re: #8, Animby… oh, if only I were still a choir boy virgin. (sigh)
And as I ponder that thought, I hear music… and I think I smell wieners!
I wish I were a Choir Boy Vir-gin,
That is what I truly wish to be,
Cause if I were a Choir Boy Vir-gin,
Every priest would be in love,
Oh every priest would be in love,
Every priest would be in love with me.
# 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.