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No more than wife 2000 miles distant from her deployed soldier husband, kisses the husband's photo and says "I miss you, darling" because she thinks the photo "is" him, or it "hears" her.
Maybe Skype is a different story.
I have heard of a certain kind of devotee putting their hands on their TV screen to pick up some Pentecostal juju from a supposed god-empowered entrepreneur, but there are idiots in every denomination.