A vicar has launched a bizarre bid to attract city workers to his church ”” by offering to BLESS their mobile phones and laptops.
The Rev David Parrott issued his first blessing over a heap of high-tech laptops and smart phones on the altar of London’s 17th Century St Lawrence Jewry church today.
Ok, I’ll bite—why is this bizarre, much less so bizarre as to justify the all-caps? The Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican and many other churches have been blessing fishing boats and agricultural endeavors (see Rogation Days) for nearly two millennia. Why should high-tech tools be any less worthy of consecration to godly service?
I hope he is also blessing the sound systems for worship bands, which everyone knows are each afflicted by their various demons.
And computers and projectors doing power-point worship… Also often prone to ‘demons’. In the olden days it was OHPs but it was often the OHP engineers who were afflicted by some kind of ‘backwards and upside down demon’.
How is this different from consecration of a church, a mitre, a chalice, or any other object for that matter.
Isn’t the bible full of prayers for blessing of fields, farms and livestock. My computer and books are now my farm.
“The Rev David Parrott” – what a wonderful name. I wish him any years but fear what they will say at his funeral.