<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Feminist Philosophers]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[annejjacobson]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/author/jp12/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Get a God&nbsp;app]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>This should make classroom discussion lots and lots of fun.  Instead of thinking, students and teachers will be able to summon up points from their iphones and read them out!</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/technology/03atheist.html?hp">the NY Times</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Publishers of Christian material have begun producing iPhone applications that can cough up quick comebacks and rhetorical strategies for believers who want to fight back against what they view as a new strain of strident atheism. And a competing crop of apps is arming nonbelievers for battle. &#8230;</p>
<p>Users can scroll from topic to topic to prepare themselves or, in the heat of a dispute, search for the point at hand — and the perfect retort.</p>
<p>Software creators on both sides say they are only trying to help others see the truth. But most applications focus less on scholarly exegesis than on scoring points.</p></blockquote>
<p>It does sound like a philosophical discussion in the making.</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;ll go have a look at <em>The Bible Thumper.  </em>It&#8217;s got lots of silly and/or irrational passages from the Bible.</p>
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