They clearly don't have an objective, logical view of life, and allow important decisions to be based on the teachings of old story books.

I'm not bashing religion, just those who can't seperate it from choices which affect peolpe who don't agree with them.

while it does seem quite laughable at first, i agree now (but I wouldn't have a couple of years ago) all this stupid electronic crap IS ruining our lives, and its getting worse by the day, by detracting from the 'real' world, ie, nature, and leading us more and more into digital enslavery by the purely imaginary world we've created,

bring on the solar EMP!!

uhm...

I'll do it if he gives up believing in Sky Beard Man for Lent.

"But the Bish didn’t stop there, because he also suggested that followers avoid videogames, iPhones and social networking sites during the season."

Do we assume from the lack of G1 on that list he's on the take from Google or T-Mobile?

Paris because she's normally too busy to text...

That's that old christian tradition, isn't it? Surely nobody believes in that old rot anymore.

Religious nutter

Actually Lent doesn't include Sundays. That's why it lasts 46 days instead of the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness: the 6 Sundays don't count. So you can text as much as you like on Sundays.

Of course they never tell you that.

Sundays are not part of lent.

Too many people just never ask the question and just assume that because the sundays in lent are all refered to as the nth sunday of lent and all the teachings are themed around lent, the sundays themselves must also be days of fasting.

Moral of the story: if you are tols that somethng is 40 units in length and you add up the individual units and get 46, ask someone why!

Mine's the one with old church newsletters in the pocket.

Whatever your thoughts on organised religion, you can't knock individual people for trying to improve the world. It's unfortunate that Church leaders who actually try to do something constructive quickly end up being branded 'religious nutters' - attacking the messenger whilst ignoring the message (as a society, we're getting so tied up in our electronic, virtual lives that it's time we stopped - just for a while - and took the time to look around us).

It's not a bad message, might even be a grain of truth in it, and the guy doesn't deserve to be called a lunatic for voicing it.

Imagine if somebody NOT affiliated with the Church had said it - the Queen, for example. Would she be called a nutter as well?

So.... is this a case of giving up virtual worlds for imaginary friends?

That's a good idea! I go cross country in the US on a motorcycle every year and it's great to have 2 weeks without electronic communications.

Never looked back

I would love to do this can preists sign you off work like doctors can

Dear sir

i am signing your systems engineers off for 46 during lent

jesus be with you

regards

(some priest )

sure my boss and the company would love that

Did the church ever tell people to quit writing letters to each other? I know speech (as in free) in general has never been particularly popular with them but I thought writing was generally encouraged even when "silent."