![]() ![]() It is about sitting with the blank screen of one’s life and creating something, as best one can, and offering that something to God. It is about putting down weapons, winning the victory over greed, loving one’s enemies and joining God’s ceaseless drive for justice and peace.Ĭhristianity, unlike the iPad, is not about consuming content that someone else created. Christianity - especially Easter Christianity - is about transformation of life.Įaster Christianity is about people submitting their lives to the love and will of God. God didn’t call us to be consumers of religious content or protectors of the institutions that provide them. Institutional apologists who rally in his defense by naming him a victim (like Jesus or European Jews) and declare any criticism a sign of anti-Catholic sentiment, not normal standards of accountability? Is this the “gosh” moment of Easter? A pope who chooses doctrinal orthodoxy over accountability for clergy who abuse children? It also produced a tragic stream of power struggles, scheming bishops, beheadings and burnings, heresy trials, warfare and pogroms, and now modern church wars for the right to declare other people wrong. That movement, in turn, sent evangelists to the far reaches of the world. Those believers told others, and soon a movement began. Something truly “magical and revolutionary” happened that first day. I do a quick download, purchase an e-book, read a few pages and realize I just saved $499.Īnd so it is with Easter. It took five minutes to discover that Amazon provides a free app for reading books on the laptop I already own. So now I carry a third tool? To read electronic books? ![]() To communicate, I still need my smartphone. But if I want to actually create anything, I still need my laptop. It’s not for writers, or helping clients, managing data, managing Web sites or running an enterprise.Ĭonsuming content is part of life, of course, and the iPad apparently handles it well. That is, people who play games, read newspapers or books or watch videos. Will it actually do anything I need done?Īccording to lengthy reviews, its main market is consumers of content, not creators of content. That’s a lot of money for an over-sized iPhone. Better run down to the Apple Store and buy this “magical and revolutionary product” for the “unbelievable price” of $499. My first e-mail of the day is from Apple Inc.: “iPad is here!”
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