One in five Americans use phones in church

This pastor had enough of cell phones in church.

(Credit: 911luidao/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

Whenever I call Heavens Above, I never seem to get a reply.

Perhaps that is, in itself, a reply.

There are those, however, who must be trying harder — or even getting some results.

I make this generous assumption on the basis of research that has just descended upon me. It seems that fully 19 percent of Americans admit to using their phones in church — or their other places of worship.

Yes, of course they could be shopping for a new outfit or calling their new illicit friend. I prefer to think, though, that some have a hotline to Upstairs.

I am not sure that the sponsor of this research — mobile verification and payments company Jumio — would reach the same conclusion.

Indeed, its representatives theorize that, quite simply, Americans and their phones are seldom parted. Some proof of this is evident in the video I have embedded, in which a pastor smashes the phone of a woman who is talking during a service.

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