Outsource Your Prayers
Unhappy about having to learn speech recognition? Well, look at all the good it's doing! Thanks to fellow
ADVANCE blogger
Jay Vance for digging up this gem: a company that uses speech recognition backwards--going from text to speech--to help people catch up on their ... prayers.
Information Age Prayer will, for a small fee, say your prayers for you. Talk about outsourcing. I know we tend to delegate a lot in this country, from having grocery delivery and laundry service to, well, this. But the prayer thing seems just a tad extreme.
Just choose a religion from the left hand menu, pick the prayer you fancy and pony up a few bucks, and you'll be on your way to not having to say your own prayers. According to the Web site, "It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget."
And if you're worried about that little blasphemy thing, well, they've got that covered. Just consult your clergy to see if prayers still count if voiced by a computer. Costs for saying prayers varies with length, and no, it's not wrong to charge for prayers, according to the site's FAQ.
In the future, the service hopes to include prayers that people write themselves, but for now, that's not an option as "malicious prayers" might get through. (Please, God, give that guy who cut me off in traffic an ingrown toenail. Amen.)