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19 August, 2004
19 August 2004
It's a cutesy story, but at least Elizabeth Biddlecombe manages to avoid phone-call-to-God jokes in her Wired report on religious text messaging. Cell phones, she reports, are now being employed to send prayers to the Hindu god Ganesh; to transmit "The Pope's Thought of the Day"; to make daily micro-donations to charity from British Muslims; and, in China, to be burnt in effigy in honor of the cell phone owner's ancestors.

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