I do not deify computers or technology, although Joseph Campbell does:"I have bought this wonderful machine -- a computer. Now I am rather an authority on gods, so I identified the machine -- it seems to me to be an Old Testament god with a lot of rules, and no mercy." - Joseph Campbell (text copied from http://www.boo.net/~rarnold/
For me, there are two main reasons why technology and religion belong together:
1. Religious practice has a lot to do with training your thought processes and expanding the ways in which you experience the world. Programming has had many of the same effects on me, so I am intrigued by the overlap and interaction of these two forms of discipline.
2. Technology is a major part of modern living. We trust technology with our lives every day. Just as the "old" religions built ceremony and mythology around hunting and agriculture, I want my modern religion to incorporate technology and economics. These are forces of nature.
> How can we deify something we've created? Show me a deity that isn't something we've created. I prefer religions that admit that fact up front.
- Joseph Campbell (text copied from http://www.boo.net/~rarnold/
For me, there are two main reasons why technology and religion belong together:
1. Religious practice has a lot to do with training your thought processes and expanding the ways in which you experience the world. Programming has had many of the same effects on me, so I am intrigued by the overlap and interaction of these two forms of discipline.
2. Technology is a major part of modern living. We trust technology with our lives every day. Just as the "old" religions built ceremony and mythology around hunting and agriculture, I want my modern religion to incorporate technology and economics. These are forces of nature.
> How can we deify something we've created?
Show me a deity that isn't something we've created. I prefer religions that admit that fact up front.
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