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To its followers, Apple is already a religion. But a pastor in Houston is taking it a step further, telling his Baptist congregation that the iPod can actually reveal a religious lesson: that life can be simple. “When I go to iTunes, I select all that I want. When I go to Jesus Christ, he gives me all that I need. It’s that simple,” Metropolitan Baptist Church pastor Sal Sberna said in one of four recent sermons on “iPod theology.”