AI & Religion: Public Theology

At the end of the day, I found myself unsure of why suffering seemed to persist even when my intentions felt pure. What I see now is that I had confused goodness with passivity. There is a kind of love that moves toward the broken, and a kind that enables what breaks them.

I’m foolish enough to believe that through the power of this love somewhere, men of the most recalcitrant bent will be transformed. And then we will be in God’s kingdom. We will be able to matriculate into the university of eternal life because we had the power to love our enemies, to bless those persons that cursed us, to even decide to be good to... See more

Whether we like it or not, aesthetic life under capitalism becomes dominated by the commodity form. Art practice, with all its ethereal and sublime possibilities, begins to feel like an exclusive members-only club.

The most famous of the Torah's 613 tribal laws, the Ten Com-

mandments, can be read as a how-to manual for a sustainable society.

First, the people must revere as supreme only the god who liberated

them from enslavement; they must resist all theologies that legitimize

exploitation. Second, they must not turn God into a talisman or tool

to justify human... See more

Charlie Kirk’s AI resurrection ushers in a new era of digital grief