{"id":1135,"date":"2011-10-06T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2011-10-06T18:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T22:21:42","slug":"rip-steve-jobs-from-christianity-to-buddhism-jesus-phone-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/10\/rip-steve-jobs-from-christianity-to-buddhism-jesus-phone-included.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP Steve Jobs: From Christianity to Buddhism, Jesus Phone Included"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs. From playing Number Munchers on my third grade classroom&#8217;s Apple computer, to filing stories and photographs from my iPhone yesterday, your products changed my life &#8212; and the world.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs, 56,\u00a0wasn&#8217;t much associated with faith &#8211; unless you count coverage of his <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-10-04\/tech\/tech_mobile_new-iphone_1_gene-munster-iphone-apple-employee?_s=PM:TECH\" target=\"_blank\">company&#8217;s latest &#8220;Jesus Phone&#8221; <\/a>&#8211;\u00a0but obituaries are noting that he was a Buddhist convert, with roots in the Lutheran church. Incidentally,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/steve-jobs\/8811345\/Steve-Jobs-adopted-child-who-never-met-his-biological-father.html\" target=\"_blank\"> his biological father was Muslim<\/a>, but they were estranged.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are some faith-related links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/06\/the-zen-of-steve-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Zen of Steve Jobs <\/a>(CNN Belief Blog)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/10\/steve-jobs-apple-founder-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies<\/a> (GetReligion)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/05\/tech\/innovation\/steve-jobs-philosophy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Spiritual Side of Steve Jobs <\/a>(CNN Belief Blog)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/2011\/10\/06\/steve-jobs-rip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jobs, RIP<\/a> (Patheos)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/1065488--mideast-tweets-gratitude-for-steve-jobs-credits-apple-in-arab-spring?bn=1\" target=\"_blank\">Mideast Tweets Gratitude for Steve Jobs, Credits Him for Arab Spring<\/a> (Toronto Star)<\/li>\n<li>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/blogs\/blog_cdo\/aid\/1642767\/jewish\/Steve-Jobs-Change-We-Learned-to-Believe-In.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jobs: Change We Learned to Believe In <\/a>(Chabad.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, of course <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2011\/10\/westboro-church-uses-iphone-to-announce-steve-jobs-funeral-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest at the funeral<\/a>. Yawn. Then again, maybe that&#8217;s their interpretation of Jobs&#8217; mantra: &#8220;Stay hungry. Stay foolish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/10\/rip-steve-jobs-from-christianity-to-buddhism-jesus-phone-included.html#post\" target=\"_blank\">in the Comments section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs. From playing Number Munchers on my third grade classroom&#8217;s Apple computer, to filing stories and photographs from my iPhone yesterday, your products changed my life &#8212; and the world. Jobs, 56,\u00a0wasn&#8217;t much associated with faith &#8211; unless you count coverage of his company&#8217;s latest &#8220;Jesus Phone&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0but obituaries are noting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[57,463,491,14,58,488,11,489,490,148,486,487,42],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news","tag-apple","tag-buddhism","tag-buddhist","tag-christianity","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-islam","tag-jesus-phone","tag-lutheran","tag-muslim","tag-rip-steve-jobs","tag-steve-jobs","tag-westboro-baptist-church"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RIP Steve Jobs: From Christianity to Buddhism, Jesus Phone Included - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/10\/rip-steve-jobs-from-christianity-to-buddhism-jesus-phone-included.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RIP Steve Jobs: From Christianity to Buddhism, Jesus Phone Included - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs. 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