Pay for Prayers

yenni · #1 (**permalink**) 05-03-2009, 06:26 PM

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The 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?

missingsomething · #2 (**permalink**) 05-03-2009, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by yenni

Nabbed from News of the Weird

Thoughts 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.

yenni · #3 (**permalink**) 05-03-2009, 06:45 PM

It reminds me of the middle ages where people had to pay the clergy to abolish their sins.

Maxel · #4 (**permalink**) 05-04-2009, 01:49 AM

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.

pam · #5 (**permalink**) 05-04-2009, 10:33 AM

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?

beefche · #6 (**permalink**) 05-04-2009, 10:50 AM

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?

Gwen · #7 (**permalink**) 05-04-2009, 11:03 AM

i will go pee for her. payment must be made in advance.

scdoyle · #8 (**permalink**) 05-05-2009, 11:04 AM

.50 cents for a #1, but a #2 will will run $2 each.

Faded · #9 (**permalink**) 05-05-2009, 03:18 PM

Reminds me of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams.

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Originally Posted 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.

Tarnished · #10 (**permalink**) 05-06-2009, 09:22 AM

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.