Kevin Bostic
Last week, several Atlantic City firefighters took their oaths of office using not a physical Bible, as is tradition, but a Bible app on Apple's iPad.
According to a Friday report from NBC 40, officials had scheduled a ceremony to promote several Atlantic City Fire Department workers to Battalion Chief and Fire Captain, but upon commencing the proceedings it was noticed that no one had thought to bring a Bible to City Council Chambers.
Atlantic City firefighters get sworn in on an iPad. | Source:NBC 40
One attendant, though, carried Apple's popular tablet computer along with him. The iPad owner pulled up ― or downloaded, as the report is not clear ― a Bible app. The firefighters then swore their oaths, each placing his hand on the iPad with the Bible app open.
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102 Comments
OK, it's bad enough that government offices in a country that has separation of church and State swears in firefighters with a Bible, but using an electronic device as a substitute is ludicrous. I'm sure that the Pope wouldn't consider an iPad (bible app or not) as sacred as the church's Bible.
Hope they watched the screen, all those touches and they could have ended up swearing on Angry Birds
Why not? You already have the "Jesus Phone".
Well, when the president himself has to swear on the Holy Bible...so much for the so-called separation.
[quote name="Franck" url="/t/155898/new-jersey-firefighters-sworn-in-on-ipad-bible-app#post_2275108"]Well, when the president himself has to swear on the Holy Bible...so much for the so-called separation.[/quote] The president doesn't [I]have[/I] to use a Bible, but they do it out of blind tradition. I'm looking forward to elected officials who decline using the Bible and instead use a copy of the Constitution. And then see who complains...