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[–] 198 points 1 year ago (20 children)

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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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You know how people used to put pictures of their loved ones in a locket, or in their wallets, or as a background pic on their phones? That's what they were supposed to be. (As told by a catholic friend)

    I can accept that. I have one of my kids in the car cause I used to drive like a maniac. It's a constant reminder of the kind of person I should be while driving.

    But of course, people will be people, ignoring what they're told and doing whatever the hell they like... "This statue cried blood, let's pray to it!" (and ignore the leaking toilet upstairs)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

    Rotfl

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think they could use a good 40 years wandering the desert right now.

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  • [–] 92 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    They think God works through them, and it is their divine duty to do this.

    It's how they justify a lot of the shit they do.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

    -Susan B. Anthony

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This justification is always funny.

    “Oh, your all powerful god needs the help of Brian the middle manager to get its work done for them?”

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because "God" works through us, imperfect tools, etc. The real question is why does anything we do matter if we are all just part of gods plan?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The answer to that is to do what God said to do to hasten his coming: spread the gospel. Not ban abortions, arrest gay people, criminalize trans people. Spread the gospel. Anything else is them using religion as an excuse to promote their opinions. I realize a lot of people here recognize that, but I still think it needs to be said.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Where there was once purported atheism, there is now “a very loud, very visible and very specifically Christian-inflected technological culture” in Silicon Valley, said Damien Williams, a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who studies how technologies are shaped by religious beliefs.

    Danger. Danger.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Why wouldn't we capture him and milk him for his eternal energy forever? We will power grand Gigastructures that dwarf the very stars themselves fueled by his essence! WE WILL TOUCH GOD HIMSELF!

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They've read the Bible! Well, some of it. Well, they've heard their pastor read it. Well, paraphrase it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not just the Bible. A lot of this extremist ideology comes from people who like to sound smart, but don't know what they're talking about.

    Like the whole effective altruism movement, or even just the resurgence of eugenics with Musk and his whole birthing weirdness.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago*

    Holy shit, when does Big Tech ever stop being such a clown show???

    Also:

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lol the first LLM with included cognitive dissonance and self-loathing

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  • Curing cancer? Nooo

    Protecting children from gun shots? Nooo

    Making sure children are educated and fed? Nooo

    Let's build a fucking ball room and create a Jesus chat bot -- YES

    I cannot believe that this is the future we were waiting for.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    mission to build a Christian AI

    But AI is already fucking stupid?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Breaking: Lightning flashes, thunderous boom. Jesus Christ appears upon a obelisk in the center of the reflecting pool in DC.

    And I say unto you: FUCKING HELL, CAN YOU ALL JUST STOP RUINING THE WORLD AND EACHOTHER, JUST FUCKING STOP IT WITH THE MONEY AND FUCKING OVER THE POOR. EVERYONE DESERVES FOOD AND COMFORT AND STOP TRYING TO SPEND ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON GET RICH QUICK AI BULLSHIT, I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAD TO COME DOWN HERE TO STOP YOU ASSHOLES.

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  • Did you guys see that AI generated drone show in the sky? Those libtards must be getting super afraid to stoop that low. Hey! Jon! Did you make sure the food bank in that black neighborhood had their deliveries diverted to the dump?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Stop asking "what would Jesus do?", use Jesus API.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It's a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Because it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Destruction of the planet, hardly. The earth has and will shrug of worse than humanity. Thinking otherwise is giving humanity too much credit.

    Destruction of humanity is more likely. We are actively making the earth worse for us, and many other species. But there are many more which will survive and thrive after we destroy ourselves.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I think when people say "destruction of the planet" they are really meaning "our ecosphere and the multitude of species that are currently going extinct".

    Many recognize that we are in a 6th mass extinction period and understand that as the ecosystem goes, so do we. Is the spheroid body of the planet going to crumble or plate tectonics stop working because we're gone? With all deference to George Carlin, no we know better (we'll, there is the question about racking-induced earthquakes, but that's a bit in the weeds).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    These people think they're in the end times because the world is in a garbage fire state, that they probably helped cause, and now they want out instead of doing literally anything else, including just not making it worse.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return

    An ex-intel CEO's idea to make money by combining two money making tools

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • These are definitely the people who end up killing us all.

    Why would Christ want you literally playing God and fucking with his timeline?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    *Ya know, i was god once...

    Yes, i saw. You were doing well until everyone died.*

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    According to the Bible, the end times will come when God's good and ready. It's blaspemous and extremely narcissistic to think that any human action can force God to hurry up.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    More than that, most of the old testament is stories about how you don't debate God, you don't test God, and you definitely don't force God's hand.

    Honestly, this Intel guy is cute compared to the Christian Zionists, who somehow think God wants and will be happy with their attempts to manufacture prophecy.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    We have TempleOS already, but thanks anyway.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If he made a Christian AI, it would be shut down within a week for being too woke.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    I think I understand skynet now. It must have been a Christian AI and decided it would bring upon the rapture, and no one was worthy.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ever notice that, with LLMs, the main goal of the people who own them is to turn them from machines that spit out information they gathered in realistic-ishly human ways to machines that spit out what their owners want people to believe?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    That thing better be running on TempleOS and be coded with HolyC, or I'm calling BS and telling people they've just found a new way to make LLMs even more annoying than they already were.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Actually this is a pretty impressive grift. I don’t think anyone has tried this before.

    lol

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    This is the lamest Adeptus Mechanicus cosplay I’ve ever read about.

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