What will AI do to religion?

[Anonymous]

The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

[Anonymous]

Nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

[Anonymous]

We can have AI robots that give better sermons than ordinary humans

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

If AI is more intelligent, it would claim divinity.

[Anonymous]

Mediocre content and delivery of priests/Imams/Rabbi are the reason most lose interest in attending service to hear sermons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mediocre content and delivery of priests/Imams/Rabbi are the reason most lose interest in attending service to hear sermons.

In the Catholic Church, it's a mortal sin to miss mass - unless that's changed since the last time I went to mass, eons ago.

And it wasn't because the sermons were boring. Sermons were never a reason to go to church. I just didn't believe anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

If AI is more intelligent, it would claim divinity.

Probably true, because AI knows that people are gullible and will believe in a god, or at least say they believe in a god, if that's what the god wants, and if the people perceive they will be better off in life if they say that they believe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Perhaps not all of us. Religion (to me) is about happiness and fulfillment - certainly not fear and living forever.

AI won’t change a thing. My faith is internal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

lol
Show the e utter hypocrisy
Show the stupidity
Shoe how religion is the cause for hate, scamming and corruption

[Anonymous]

AI is becoming a religion, to some people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Perhaps not all of us. Religion (to me) is about happiness and fulfillment - certainly not fear and living forever.

AI won’t change a thing. My faith is internal.

Don't you believe you will live forever in heaven with God?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Perhaps not all of us. Religion (to me) is about happiness and fulfillment - certainly not fear and living forever.

AI won’t change a thing. My faith is internal.

Don't you believe you will live forever in heaven with God?

Sure, but that’s not WHY I am faithful. The PP said religion is all about a desire to live forever (and fear). Neither of those are true for me.

And, on point, AI doesn’t change a thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Perhaps not all of us. Religion (to me) is about happiness and fulfillment - certainly not fear and living forever.

AI won’t change a thing. My faith is internal.

Don't you believe you will live forever in heaven with God?

Sure, but that’s not WHY I am faithful. The PP said religion is all about a desire to live forever (and fear). Neither of those are true for me.

And, on point, AI doesn’t change a thing.

People can be, and are, happy and fulfilled without religion. Only religion offers the opportunity to live forever, as long as you're good. So it comes with the package. It's easy to say that you don't care about the living forever part, but if you do religion correctly, you get to live forever. That's what Christians believe, anyhow.