AI-dolatry
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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We have already had suicides of young people guided to it by chatbots. We already have had a pastor setting up chatbot hot line, with the semblance of his voice, so that parishioners can call and get comfort and counsel from something that is no more than a souped-up answering machine. As things currently stand, we are not ready for what is coming. People who worship the way we currently do are exposed and vulnerable….A people without worldview wisdom are not prepared for what is coming. It all seems ridiculous for those who are running along on common sense, but then absurd claims are advanced, and we discover that we have no grounded answers. Is a married man who has intercourse with a sexbot an adulterer? Scripture please.
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| 0:00.0 | AI Doleotry, March 23, 2026. |
| 0:10.0 | Quote, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, |
| 0:15.0 | or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet. |
| 0:22.0 | Mr. Beaver in the lion, the witch, in the wardrobe. Quote, their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not. Eyes have they, but they hear not. They have ears, but they hear not. Noses have they, but they smell not. They have hands, but they handle not. Feet have they, but they walk not. |
| 0:39.0 | Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them. So is everyone that |
| 0:44.1 | trusteth in them. Psalm 115, 4 through 8. Quote, and that no man might by ourselves, save he that had |
| 0:50.4 | the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 1317. |
| 0:55.9 | A idolatry and worship in the singularity. Imagine, if you will, a time about 20 years after the |
| 1:01.3 | singularity has arrived. The only people who have not been folded into the total techno embrace |
| 1:05.8 | when your toaster and your wristwatch and your electric car have all been taken up into the godhead, |
| 1:11.6 | the internet of things, are a group of fundamentalist weirdos in the hills of Arkansas who refuse to have anything |
| 1:16.5 | to do with the Mark of the Beast. And however cracked all their pots might be, they are the only sane |
| 1:21.5 | ones left. Two kinds of idols. I'm going to argue in this piece that AI represents a screaming |
| 1:26.9 | threat to the Christian church |
| 1:28.3 | and that the threat consists of a temptation to slide into idolatrous worship. |
| 1:32.3 | Worship is going to be the place where the battle is joined, and I believe that the church currently is not positioned well at all. |
| 1:39.3 | We are not ready to be the resistance yet. |
| 1:41.3 | Consequently, in this article, I'm going to be quite the alarmist, and I'm not going to stint with the warnings. In future posts, I'm going to talk about lawful uses of AI, and sure, there are many, but it is all going to be negative unless there's a reformation in the church with regard to our approach to worship. This is because, in scripture, idols come in two forms. There are the idols that must simply be destroyed. |
| 2:01.6 | You burn them, grind them to powder, and throw them into the brook hydron. Other idols are dealt with |
| 2:06.5 | by being demoted, by being set in their proper place. I believe that AI is in this second category, |
| 2:12.5 | but unless and until we get worship right, we will find that it is extraordinarily slippery, |
| 2:17.3 | and we will not be able |
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