Food for thought! A famous observation by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
When pseudo religions like environmentalism, climate change, LGBTQ, AI and so forth gain support.
"G.K. Chesterton famously observed that when people no longer have faith in God they don’t believe in nothing, they are open to believing anything. And as Christianity has ebbed recently, so the tide of mysticism, the occult and magical thinking has grown. It is precisely amid some of those who proclaim their belief in Reason most loudly that curious belief systems are taking hold.
Big Tech is under the spell of the occult, warns Damian Thompson in this week’s cover piece. Half a century ago, Arthur C. Clarke observed that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’. Today, artificial intelligence has advanced so far that even its creators are flirting with mystical mythologies and supernatural fantasies.
Peter Thiel’s lectures on ‘the Antichrist’ attract many, while the number of self-identifying witches in America has overtaken Presbyterians. And these modern day magi are thoroughly at home in the tech-enabled world, with witches now using ChatGPT to generate spells. AI can craft an incantation in the style of a Yoruba magician or conjure a Wiccan goddess.
In Silicon Valley, the corner of the US where Christianity is weakest, cults have thrived since the 1960s. In the vacuum left by faith, tech firms have fed employees eastern mysticism to cultivate ‘mindfulness’ among the workforce. What remains is an endless Halloween of woke spirituality, demonstrating that any sufficiently advanced cultic fad is indistinguishable from hell. ..."
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