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Hot Dog! A ‘Church of AI’

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How about Artificial Everything?

There’s a lot of euphoria in the air these days, inspired by President Donald Trump sticking it to Far Left Crazy. But the Bad Guys–who have had decades to solidify their position–will not go without a hard fight. Either they will not survive, or the rest of us will not survive. The war has only just started.

It will be a religious war.

The Church of AI And the Techno-Utopian Gospel

AI (“Artificial Intelligence”) as a god? The worship of something created by human hands? A thing which promises “salvation” managed by Far Left kooks in ivory towers.

God help us, this blather is as old as the hills! Will we never outgrow idolatry? Who asked for a “Church of AI” and “immortality through AI”? And they can take their “Techno-Utopian Gospel” and feed it to the fishes.

Take nothing for granted. We have work to do! Work to do as God’s people. And we’d better do it well.

‘Humanist Religion (1): The Humanists’ God’ (2015)

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There’s quite a bit of this in all of them.

When humanists want to see the face of God, all they have to do is look into a mirror.

Humanist Religion (1): The Humanists’ God

A more unworthy object of worship can hardly be imagined.

Don’t be fooled when they try to pitch Science, or The State, or The Will O’ The People as the ultimate authority. Those are all just puppets, and they hold the strings.

‘The March of Sophia’ (2017)

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What do you suppose Martin Luther would think of a, um, “Lutheran church” where they doted on clay idols and looked forward to “replacing” God with a pagan goddess? I think he might throw more than just an inkwell.

The March of “Sophia”

There was an awful lot of this mischief going on, earlier in this century. Enough for a six-part series, which I wrote for Chalcedon’s magazine. In recent years it seems to have gone undercover. We can always pray for its extinction.

Y’know, if there’s one thing the Bible is absolutely clear on, it’s this–DO NOT WORSHIP HEATHEN IDOLS. Never, never, never do that.

There’s gonna be a very hot reception for (ahem!) “pastors” and ministerettes who have led and encouraged this wicked foolishness.

‘Can Britain’s Idols Save Her?’ (2017)

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What would it take for a government to admit its own policies were disastrously wrong?

We’re still waiting to find out.

Can Britain’s Idols Save Her?

But how about us, here in America? Have we put our trust in idols–the works of our own hands?

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All Sorts of ‘Wish Spells’!

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If you go to YouTube and search for “wishing spell,” you’ll find a virtually inexhaustible mine of superstitious twaddle. The one above is only one of many.

This in the middle of a worldwide technology splurge.

This in the context of “education” that takes up the first fifteen to twenty years of your life, costs more than anything, and advertises itself as indispensable–although it looks like a lot of people have already dispensed with it.

We need to be smarter than this if we want to keep our country.

What happens when a nation forsakes God and turns to the worship of sticks and stones–and wishing dust?

Nothing good. Oh, no, nothing good.

‘Ignorance and Superstition, in My Own Home Town’ (2014)

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Shameful, isn’t it?

I haven’t looked at the Community Calendar in donkey’s years, so I don’t know if we’re still having an annual Animal Spirit Guide Event. Nor do I know if any more mandalas have been displayed at St. Luke’s Church. I suppose it’s possible the Event petered out after the Great Squirrel Spirit handed out one too many bad stock tips.

Ignorance and Superstition, in My Own Hometown

Funny, isn’t it? The more high-tech scientific stuff we have in our lives, the more superstition we collect to go with it: almost like they were two sides of the same coin. (I was going to say “record,” but that would only bounce off anybody born after 1990.) And this with the costliest and most intrusive education system ever devised by fallen man.

On second thought, it’s doing exactly what we should expect of it.

The Messiah of the Climate Cult

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I have this on solidly impeachable authority, so save your breath, don’t even try to say it isn’t true.

Secretly, the world’s globalists and Democrats have formed a clandestine cult for the worship of Mother Gaia, the Earth, and Mother Gaia’s Special Emissary, the Gaia Messiah–the COVID-19 Virus.

The messianic character of the Red Chinese Death & Doomsday Virus is attested to by the cult’s Major Prophets: Al Gore, Greta Thunberg, Bill Nye, and a large centipede named Posty. The Virus will slay everyone who a) denies Climate Change and b) fails to obey Mandates duly issued by globalists and liberals in power. No large gatherings of any kind may be held, with the sole exception of riots. The Virus will spare those who gather together for Social Justice, violence, and looting.

All Democrat governors and mayors are venerated as Saints.

Human sacrifice is practiced on a lavish scale. Saints and Prophets don’t have to sacrifice. They choose the people who do.

To join the cult, an individual must sacrifice every last vestige of personal integrity.

It is rumored to be the fastest-growing cult in the world.

‘Can Fools Create Wise Computers?’ (2014)

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An idol is an idol is an idol…

Let’s not forget it was some cockamamie Computer Model that told us the Chinese Communist Death Flu From China was going to kill off 2.2 million people in the United States alone: and on the basis of that asinine prediction, we coughed up our liberties and practically murdered our economy.

Can Fools Create Wise Computers?

No, morons cannot create wisdom, nor sinners righteousness.

All we can really create is Artificial Stupidity. And are we paying for that

‘P.S.–It’s Worse Than I Thought’ (2015)

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No education system in world history has been as costly as hours, has employed (and given lavish pensions to) as many people–or failed so abysmally.

Here’s some more evidence of it.

P.S.–It’s Worse Than I Thought

And it’s not just the schools. Our churches aren’t exactly burning up the track, either. Praying to “the universe”? Shame, shame! Trying to cast spells? Like, people can’t tell the difference between real life and Harry Potter?

But then how else do you explain the viability of the Democrat Party?

New Trappings, Same Old Paganism

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Bob Knight, who has been a friend and mentor to me over the years, thinks the culture war is increasingly revealing itself as Christianity’s struggle–not against modern atheism, but against old-hat paganism that just won’t go away.

https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2018/12/18/having-a-merry-pagan-christmas-n2537612

We know from St. Paul, in Romans Chapter 1, that we’re up against those “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” (v. 25) Indeed, the older I get, the more and more this chapter seems to describe the totality of what we’re up against.

Astrology, ouija boards, hexes, crystals–all this tired old crapola, old as the hills–is easy to laugh at. Sally Quinn, widow of Washington Post honcho Ben Bradlee, seems convinced that she has acquired the power to hex people to death, implying that it’s really hard for her to resist the temptation to voodoo President Donald Trump into an early grave.

Meanwhile, assorted celebrities and their followers natter about “the universe” as some kind of deity in its own right, about god-ness residing not in any Creator but in all created things: serving the creature more than the Creator. Oh–and we’re all little gods and goddesses, too. Unless were Biggits.

It’s so easy to dismiss this as simple-minded twaddle; but it’s twaddle that’s hung on for literally thousands of years, despite huge advances in science: it seems to take science in its stride. What pagan wouldn’t say, “Oh, sure, I believe in science”?

“Science,” unless the word is thrown around so carelessly as to mean virtually nothing at all, cannot support the absurdities of Far Left Crazy ideology–all that “transgender” slop, to name just one. But paganism can. It always has. Whenever we need support for our most extravagant depravities, paganism is right there to provide it. Mixing it with “science” yields a particularly toxic brew.

Moses cried out, “Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me” (Exodus 32:26). And what occasion had provoked this cry? The people of Israel had lapsed back into paganism, and were worshiping the golden calf.

God already knows who’s on His side–but do we know?

It’s not a question for Him, but for us.