{"id":131,"date":"2010-02-05T17:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/02\/the-ipad.html"},"modified":"2010-02-05T17:44:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:44:52","slug":"the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/02\/the-ipad.html","title":{"rendered":"#125 The iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"how I know.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/ipad\/how%20I%20know.jpeg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"606\" height=\"480\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"right\"><font><i>image via <a href=\"http:\/\/grapesofrad.com\/\">Grapes of Rad<\/a><\/i><\/font><\/div>\n<p><font><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<p>The iPad has sparked widespread dismay but fortunately for Apple, Christian culture is unaffected. Christians who identify as emergent and\/or relevant can&#8217;t wait to get an iPad of their very own.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t mind that the iPad is an unwieldy iPhone without the phone or Flash or much else that is good about computers. Since they call themselves emergent they are fond of all things emergent without much regard for quality or performance. This is characteristic of Christian culture&#8217;s penchant for crappier versions of the original, as with music (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/06\/87-getting-rid-of-their-secular-music.html\">Christian music<\/a>), video games (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/08\/96-playing-guitar-praise-in-lieu-of-guitar-hero.html\">Guitar Praise<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/05\/84-focusing-on-that-one-scene-thatruined-the-movie.html\">movies<\/a> (particularly those starring Kirk Cameron).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPad has sparked widespread dismay but fortunately for Apple, Christian culture is unaffected. 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