{"id":39758,"date":"2013-08-27T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/shns_terry_mattingly-apple_and_the_isacraments_age\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T15:30:46","slug":"shns_terry_mattingly-apple_and_the_isacraments_age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39758","title":{"rendered":"(SHNS) Terry Mattingly&#8211;Apple and the iSacraments age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bottom line: Have products inspired by the &#8220;Jesus Phone&#8221; turned into rosaries for narcissists?<\/p>\n<p>The omnipresent &#8220;iPhone provides some of the comforts and a sense of security that religious faith provides,&#8221; said [University of Notre Dame business professor Brett] Robinson. &#8220;It promises to connect you to the world and to the transcendent. &#8230; Yet most people spend most of their time looking at the same five or six sites online \u201d\u201d like Facebook \u201d\u201d that primarily are about themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They spend hours and hours in this intimate ritual of touching those phones, clicking and clicking their way through their own interests, their own desires, their own lives. &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/religion-faith21-apple\/religion-faith21-apple\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bottom line: Have products inspired by the &#8220;Jesus Phone&#8221; turned into rosaries for narcissists? The omnipresent &#8220;iPhone provides some of the comforts and a sense of security that religious faith provides,&#8221; said [University of Notre Dame business professor Brett]<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39758\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,133,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-history","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}