Emerging Technopaganism [The Pugcast]

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The Pugsters take a walk on the weird side with a conversation on UFOs (or, as they are now called, UAPs), AI, and quantum computing as interrelated parts of a new, emerging religion that Glenn calls Technopaganism. There's a whole lot going on in these areas and a lot of it is very strange. Join us as Glenn takes us through a survey of some of the terrain using the work of professor of religion Diana Pasulka as a jumping off point. But be prepared for a lot of things that don't fit the way we've been taught to see the world!

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome yet again if you're returning listener to the theology podcast.
0:08.0	But if this is your first time tuning in, we're going to introduce ourselves so you just know who we are.
0:14.0	I'm C.R. Wiley, I'm a pastor. I serve at Church in the Pacific Northwest. I'm a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine, and I write things. Enough about me. How about you, Tom? I'm Tom Price. I teach theology, Christian ethics, philosophy,
0:27.1	and one of the places is Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Okay, Glenn, go ahead and introduce
0:32.6	yourself and then take us into the subject of the day because it's your show. I'm Glenn Sanchine. I am a retired history professor. I'm a senior fellow at the Coulson
0:43.7	Center for Christian World View, although they may want to disavow me after the show. I am a
0:49.8	I work for Reflections Ministries, former title Ministry Associate.
0:57.0	I am also, I have my own 501C3 ministry called Every Square Inch Ministries.
1:03.1	That's at eSquareinch.org.
1:05.1	And I freelance, write, and teach and do a whole bunch of other things as well.
1:10.8	And our topic today is going to be one of these weird ones that I like to do periodically.
1:17.0	We're going to be looking at what a professor of religion by the name of Diana Pesalka
1:26.5	believes to be an emerging religion in the United States right now.
1:33.4	She doesn't have a label for it, but I call it techno-paganism, for lack of a better name.
1:39.3	And this is centered in a lot of ways around the whole, well, it used to be called UFO phenomena.
1:48.6	Although the term of art right now is UAP, which stands for, let's see, it's unidentified anomalous
1:58.2	phenomenon, UAP, rather than UFO.
2:01.6	And the change in name is significant because, first of all, they don't want to assume that what we're looking at are actual objects.
2:11.6	And secondly, we don't want to assume that whatever they are are actually flying.
2:18.7	It could just be, well, it could be almost anything.
2:23.4	So we're changing the name from UFO to UAP, and it turns out that there's a lot of
2:32.2	very odd and very interesting speculation going on surrounding what this is.
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