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    Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made, then he punished the Jews to wander the desert for 40 years.

    This gives those vibes.

    It feels plain wrong.

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      Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made

      You are about 1700 years late to this argument. Christians reconciled with iconography some time in the Byzantium Era.

      And after Protestantism? FFS, can you imagine what Joseph Smith would say about an AI Prophet, after spending half his career reading discs out of a hat with special sunglasses?

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        Sorry, totally unrelated but fun memory: Iconoclast was the first word whose unexpected etymology I (mostly) worked out on my own. I was watching a vh1 documentary on iconoclasts, and I’d just had a biology class where I’d learned about acetoclastic bacteria. I had a eureka moment wherein I leapt to the conclusion that “breaking the mold” was an older saying than I expected. I wasn’t totally right on that, but I was still psyched to have broken it down correctly.

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        I don’t have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God

        But building oracles and such is gross. The who AI pope question was insane.

        But I will have to read that article deeper, that’s an interesting wikipedia link

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          I don’t have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God

          What about Catholics praying to little figurines and statues of saints? Because that’s been going on for a long time

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          But building oracles and such is gross.

          You’re talking about a religion whose entire foundation is built on saints and prophets. The whole Jesus story is a big deal because it is fulfillment of prophecy.

          The who AI pope question was insane.

          It’s certainly heretical to the Catholic Church. But fits comfortably in a bunch of New Age and Technocratic Futurist Protestant understands of their faith.

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      You REALLY expect conservatives to actually follow the non oppressive sections of the scriptures?

      Rotfl

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      Also I don’t think Christ would return if we were all being cool to each other, so they’re admitting they’re just trying to push humanity more off track.

      How does that help you in God’s judgement? I’m pretty sure disrespecting all of his creation and doing the opposite of everything Jesus stood for won’t go well.

      I’m agnostic, but selfishly I would not purposefully try to hasten driving myself to hell/damnation if I believed in it.

      Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.

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        Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.

        This is what baffles me when my dad argues with me for being left of center.

        You sent me where they taught this, did you not want me to learn it?

        (Also not religious, but kept some of the philosophy)

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          There’s a lot of good Christian teachings that just make the world better regardless of your fear of eternal punishment or any god.

          While outside my education I’m sure most religions too, but too many people get caught up in casting out others, or hating the non believers, or doling out punishments they have no right to.

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    The ego on these people, calling themselves Christians but thinking God needs their help for his plans.

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      Don’t you know, God is a lazy slob who needs to be provoked into action. And of course he has no idea what’s happening on Earth unless someone tells him in a very specific way.

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    This is why humanities degrees are important. We’re putting people into leadership positions surrounded by others who also have never critically engaged with a book.

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    With all of this ‘hasten the coming of Christ’ talk it sounds like they’re planning on catching and trapping him.

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    When your god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and also can easily be manipulated by puny human technology into doing your bidding.

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      I don’t get the last one and feel pretty dumb at the moment.

      Screwball, crackpot… leaky faucet?

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        Yeah, that one took me a minute. I think “drip” or “slow drip”? I know “drip” used to be a term but was never one I associated with “screwball” or “crackpot”. Usually I’d heard “drip” to mean something closer to “dull” or “boring”.

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    “Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley.”

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    “So GodGPT, is the bible the inerrant word of God?”

    > yes

    “So why does it contradict itself”

    >*explodes in Spr0ing*

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    Fuck yeah, LLMs for the LLM god! All hail the hallowed datacenter! Sacrifice the DNS!