{"id":1502,"date":"2008-04-23T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/which-religion-has-the-best-cell-phone\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:37:00","slug":"which-religion-has-the-best-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/which-religion-has-the-best-cell-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Religion has the Best Cell Phone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In the land of &ldquo;bling&rdquo; (as the kids say), you see all kinds of stuff getting the &ldquo;bling&rdquo; treatment.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Diamond encrusted jewelry, tricked out cars, and super snazzy cell phones are all items to denote wealth and status.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Which is why I was intrigued to see Computerworld.com&rsquo;s headline, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;taxonomyName=management&amp;articleId=9078698&amp;taxonomyId=14&amp;intsrc=kc_feat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Which religion has the best cell phone<\/a>?&rdquo;<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The column by Mike Elgan is an entertaining look at the ins and outs of cell phones for the faithful.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>Like Elgan, I was shocked to learn that there may be no Christian cell phones.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>There are accessories galore for the cell phone savvy Christian to get their phone on, but no 100 percent Christian phones.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>He was also unable to find Hindu or Sikh cell phones, which is a bummer because I might give up my crappy pay as you go phone if I could get a cool looking cell with Kali on it.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>So who were the big three?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>In third place was the Jewish cell phone.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>This essentially is a phone about denial to help Orthodox Jews be good boys and girls.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>In second was the Muslim cell phone.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>This is genius because if you&rsquo;re Muslim stuck in a foreign city, how do you know exactly when to pray and which direction Mecca is in?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Well, with the phones listed in the article they will remind you to pray, help you locate a mosque, and will point you towards Mecca!<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I have to admit, despite not being Muslim I wouldn&rsquo;t mind having a phone that would point towards Mecca&hellip;that&rsquo;s just cool!<span>&nbsp; <\/span>With the way things are going these days, I&rsquo;m guessing it would come with a government listening device already installed for everyone&rsquo;s convenience!<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>Finally, Elgan gave first place to the Buddhist cell phone.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I&rsquo;m not sure what Buddha would think of it, but if this gold-plated, jade accented bad boy was available in the U.S. you would see it in every hip hop video on MTV.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>To get a good look at this Nokia, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendhunter.com\/trends\/religious-phones-buddhism-phone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trendhunter.com article<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the land of &ldquo;bling&rdquo; (as the kids say), you see all kinds of stuff getting the &ldquo;bling&rdquo; treatment.&nbsp; Diamond encrusted jewelry, tricked out cars, and super snazzy cell phones are all items to denote wealth and status.&nbsp; Which is why I was intrigued to see Computerworld.com&rsquo;s headline, &ldquo;Which religion has the best cell phone?&rdquo;&nbsp; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/which-religion-has-the-best-cell-phone\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Which Religion has the Best Cell Phone?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}