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Chronology of the mainstream media’s religious ignorance

Posted By Eric Sammons On February 10, 2011 @ 7:33 am In Technology | Comments Disabled

Step 1: Confession iPhone app [1] released to help Catholics prepare for confession.

Step 2: Catholic media accurately reports about the app [2].

Step 3: Secular media picks up story and screws it up, claiming the app proposes to replace confession, with headlines like “Confess via your iPhone and be app-solved of sin [3]”

Step 4: Vatican reminds everyone that absolution cannot be given via an iPhone [4].

Step 5: Secular media continues in their ignorance, stating, “Vatican ba [5]ns iPhone ‘God app’ [5]”

It sometimes makes you wonder if they are even trying…

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URLs in this post:

[1] Confession iPhone app: http://www.osvdailytake.com/2011/01/confession-theres-app-for-that.html

[2] accurately reports about the app: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/new-iphone-app-aims-to-help-catholics-go-to-confession/

[3] Confess via your iPhone and be app-solved of sin: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/confess-via-your-iphone-and-be-appsolved-of-sin-15079136.html

[4] absolution cannot be given via an iPhone: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/new-confession-app-is-no-substitution-for-the-sacrament-vatican-says/

[5] Vatican ba: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/8314666/Vatican-bans-iPhone-God-app.html

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