[lbo-talk] Vatican bans confession by iPhone

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 04:32:52 PST 2011


Michael: "This app is simply a way to organize your confession, to remember you sins since last time."

[WS:] In other words, a database of sins? Perhaps it can serve as a data source for the next NBER paper ;).

Wojtek

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Wojtek S wrote:
>
> [WS:] I searched the Droid market and found that they have similar but
>> secular apps. The idea is to "confess" some dirty secret and post it on the
>> web for others to read. Smacks of voyeurism cum exhibitionism. The
>> Catholics seem more discreet.
>>
>
> The Catholic one is completely represented here. They "deny" that you can
> confess by iPhone because it was a misapprehension in the first place. This
> app is simply a way to organize your confession, to remember you sins since
> last time. They've had these guides in paper form for 100s of years.
>
> Michael
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