The iPad and God

One of my favorite blogs is written by a guy who pretends to be Steve Jobs, the Apple guru. I recently read his open letter to the people of the world about the iPad and found it surprisingly convicting as a Christian. Here is an excerpt:

The truth is, this (the iPad) is all about spiritual emptiness.

The truth is, all over the world, across every culture, there exists a sense of yearning. A kind of malaise. An emptiness. At the risk of sounding like Dr. Seuss: There is a hole in your soul. That is what we’re addressing at Apple. That is the hole we aim to fill. Sadly, as you may have begun to suspect, that hole can never really be filled. The truth is that modernity, the condition of living in our modern world, has inflicted terrible wounds on your inner self. These wounds can never be healed.

Click here for the whole letter.