Outsourcing Prayer

by Apr 22, 2009Humor, Piety

Information Age Prayer,” provides “a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day.” For $3.95 a month, you get “the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget.”

Protestants click here. Jews here. Muslims, presumably, must turn their computer speakers toward Mecca. Catholics can get a special deal: Hail Mary’s at just 7 cents each.

Actually, Protestants, click here.

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