The #Pope has published his first encyclical

"Magnifica Humanitas: On the Safeguarding of the Human Person in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"

Is it just me and i'm getting old? Or is this genuinely weird?

#Religion... #AI... feels like a creepy intersection man

Can you "convert" an AI to a religion?

Can an AI serve as a representative of God?

Fuck it, we're doomed. We're not ready for this shit

https://ewtnvatican.com/articles/anthropic-ai-ethics-vatican-magnifica-humanitas

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During the presentation of the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, 2026, Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, pointed to the ethical challenges posed by the development of AI. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Fun Fact: No war was ever started in the name of Satan.

#funfact #war #iran #Israel #america #middleeast #trump #Hegseth #republicans #epstein #EpsteinFiles #religion #HamonWry #news #politics

Mark Twain, writing as "Archangel Satan," 1909:

"But now [Adam & Eve] could do evil – and suffer for it; now they had acquired what the Church calls an invaluable possession, the Moral Sense; that sense which differentiates man from the beast and sets him above the beast. Instead of below the beast – where one would suppose his proper place would be, since he is always foul-minded and guilty and the beast always clean-minded and innocent. It is like valuing a watch that must go wrong, above a watch that can't.”

#religion #skepticism #christianity #marktwain #twain #moralphilosophy

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Book cover. Letters from the Earth, by Mark Twain

Oops, all Platonism #Philosophy #Religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULXb3h3nxnQ

Today is the feast day of Saint Dymphna: Patron Saint of Those Who Suffer From Anxiety. Depression. Nervous Disorders. Mental Illness.

Born in Ireland in the 7th century, and by 14 consecrated herself to Christ and took a vow of chastity. When her mother died, her father's mental health declined & she fled to Geel, Belgium where she built a hospital. Her father followed her & killed her.

A church was built in honour of her & so many pilgrims arrived in need of treatment for mental ills, that it was expanded. The expanded sanctuary was eventually overflowing again, leaving the townspeople to accept them into their homes, which began a tradition of care for the mentally ill that continues to this day.

Hear us, O God, Our Saviour, as we honour St. Dymphna, patron of those afflicted with mental and emotional illness. Help us to be inspired by her example and comforted by her merciful help. Amen.

Painting of Saint Dymphna from https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=222

#SaintOfTheDay #OnThisDay #CatholicChurch #Church #Religion #Saints

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Painting of Saint Dymphna in white and green dress with orange headscarf, holding a bible with a clover on the front, as well as a white flower.

as #MAGA #GOP #Republican criminals look to reinstate the federal death penalty ―with the nazi barbarism of firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation―, #PopeLeoXIV took to the cameras to commemorate the #abolition of the #deathPenalty in his place of birth, Illinois.

Pope Southside wasted no time calling out right to lifers who cheerlead the death penalty: it goes against Christ’s teachings and RCC doctrine. it’s inadmissible, therefore, a sin.

#USpol #religion #antifa #popewatching

The Pope Who Allegedly Made a Deal With the Devil

A curious legend surrounds Pope Sylvester II and his supposed deal with the devil. What does this legend say, and where did it come from?

https://www.thecollector.com/pope-sylvester-devil/

#religion #legends

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"This illustration is from The Lives and Times of the Popes by Chevalier Artaud de Montor, New York: The Catholic Publication Society of America, 1911. It was originally published in 1842" - picryl.com He is dressed in a papal robe with a mitre on his head. The robe has drawings and figures on it.

Monks are building chatbots. Robots are entering rituals. But something essential may be missing. What happens when AI starts to sound like the Buddha? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/04/13/lifestyle/buddhism-shinto-ai-religioin/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #buddhism #buddha #shinto #religion #ai #chatbots #tech

[#occult #transhumanism detected]

The irony ...

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."

Artemis (Diana) is Apollo's twin sister. Together the two are 'Lucifer'.

They are chief deities of the solar worship cult.

#NASA #AprilFools #Moon #Artemis #Apollo #Bible #Babylon #Lucifer #Gods #Demons #Worship #Religion #Space

As a heterodox thinker, I notice a similar apophatic misalignment as atheists (which is also why atheism isn't a religion).
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/03/on-heterodoxy-near-misses-and-the-comfort-of-saying-not-this/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
I lay out why heterodox connexions don't tend to last. It's a feature, not a bug.
#philosophy #paradox #heterodox #orthodox #bollox #atheism #religion #blog #podcast #connexion #community #unity #vision #divergence #disconnect #success #signals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtEidzV5nNE

"Ever heard of the Enuma Elish? It’s this ancient Babylonian myth where the gods got tired of working, so they created humans to be their slave class. Sound familiar?"

"In this video, I’m exploring how Silicon Valley is basically reenacting this exact same story right now. Except this time, we want to be the gods, and AI is the new slave class."

"I dive into the difference between being made in the "Image of God" vs. the "Image of Man" (Imago Hominis), and why that distinction matters more than ever. We aren't building a god; we are building a mirror—and the reflection isn't always pretty."

#AI #SiliconValley #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #Religion #Myth

A History of Existential Anxiety

From medieval theology to modern philosophy, dread has long been a guide for living ethically.

By: Livia Gershon

https://daily.jstor.org/a-history-of-existential-anxiety/

Original article:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44017151?mag=a-history-of-existential-anxiety&seq=1

Kierkegaard, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46682
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/47157
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Margery+Kempe

#books #literature #philosophy #religion

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The Sacrifice of Isaac, Tobias and the Angel, The Angels Appearing to Abraham, Abraham Welcoming the Three Angels (painting series). This series of paintings predominantly tells the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac, and each of the canvases treats the interaction of humans and angels. In three works, angels appear to Abraham and, in one particularly dramatic canvas, an angel intercepts Abraham before he sacrifices his own son. Like another work in this series, Tobias and the Angels, the Sacrifice of Isaac is a narrative about fathers and sons as well as obedience inspired by faith. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Guardi_-_The_Sacrifice_of_Isaac,_Tobias_and_the_Angel,_The_Angels_Appearing_to_Abraham,_Abraham_Welcoming_the_Three_Angels_(painting_series)_-_1952.235_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tiff

While everyone is distracted by the scripted ICE theater the counter-reformation unification of Roman Church and state proceeds stealthily. Rome's agents are slowly converting America to the Imperial Roman religion. This is the true goal of so-called 'Christian Nationalism': the forcible conversion of America to Roman imperial Christianity, a la Constantine and Justinian.

From his bully pulpit the President is proclaiming Imperial Roman religion about their Roman moon goddess Mary, also known as Minerva, Venus, Easter, Astarte, Semiramis, and Isis.

Presidential Message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

"In her honor, and on a day so special to our Catholic citizens, we remember the sacred words that have brought aid, comfort, and support to generations of American believers in times of need: Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/

#President #Religion #Church #ICE #Reformation #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Imperialism #Christian #Jesus #Nationalism #ChristianNationalism

Christian Nationalism is Roman Constantinian Idolatry

This political idolatry of 'Christian Nationalism' is not new. Only the wide perception of it is new due to everyone now being plugged into the Internet via their ever-present phones and tablets.

In the 1600s through the 1800s we see the political idolatry was at fever pitch and full swing, giving a host of politically-oriented cults, such as Witch-burning Puritanism, Swedenborgianism, Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, etcetera. Even the Anglican church is an Imperialist political cult and has no warrant or sanction in the Holy Scriptures. It is a 'nationalist' tyranny over the mind. And then we see Islam, which Christians mistakenly believe to be a non-Christian religion. Islam is a Christian heresy, founded by heretical Catholics. Even the name, "Mohammed" is a corruption of the earlier Arabic, "Mahmed" meaning, "Messiah". Islam is an offshoot of medieval Christianity with its Saturn idolatry gone to seed. Islam is a daughter of Babylon, the Judeo-Roman prostitute.

Christianity has always been a politically idolatrous cult. For instance, The council of Nicea was convened by the Apollo-worshiping, Luciferian Emperor Constantine for nefarious and ungodly political purposes. Every bishop who was a political apparatchik showed up, ironing out a fascist version of Christianity that was forced on the empire by the sword for centuries.

The luciferians try to repeat this in every generation in which it looks like Christians will flee the Church plantation for the true body of Christ outside the Church.

Remember, the outer sea court of the temple was for the Gentiles (nations). The kingdom was removed from the inner court and given to them without. Christian authoritarians still have not recognized this.

If you want to advocate for a more biblical and faithful version of Christianity you need to leave behind the Imperial leadership model of the Church. The Apostles and the Reformers warned us about the man of sin sitting in the chair of the bishopric building his tower of Babel using the people (laity) as their bricks.

This thing commonly called, 'Christianity' is the backsliding idol worship of Israel in the Old Testament, brought to life in our current age. Jesus Christ is not a Christian. The Apostles of the Lamb are not Christians. Neither Jesus, nor the Apostles, nor the Prophets would recognize Christianity as legitimate. The sum of all their teachings mark Christianity as an impostor religion of idolatrous customs trading darkness for light.

There is no municipal kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of God cannot be brought about by the force of arms of mortal men. It comes by the Spirit of the Lord, not by the spirit of the world. Everyone pretending to build God's kingdom by inveigling, shaming, brow-beating, force, intimidation, fear-mongering, or authoritarianism, or civil government sanction, is an anti-christ, no matter how much they pretend to worship the Father and the Son and no matter how many zillions of times they claim their names.

In the Old Testament the Father prophesied to us the rise of the Christian world empire and its eventual destruction in the turning of the ages ahead. The Imperialist Christian cult likes to distract from its own wickedness by pretending Islam is the scapegoat, or by pretending Jews are the scapegoat. It might work for a time for their politics but God the Father is not fooled.

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. ..... How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."

The 'she' is the Christian Church. She is the harlot Babylon with her many Church babies, a true mother of political prostitutes and abominations of the earth. The Christian church glorifies herself and her system of bishopric authority instead of glorifying the simple gospel of Jesus Christ. Christianity is a machine for perpetuating its own system instead of setting the spiritual captives free.

We can truthfully say to the Christian Church what Christ said to the Scribes and Pharisees of ancient Judea:

"But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

In this age the first Adam who fell is the Church, the continuation of temple idolatry on life support. The second Adam who rises is Christ, or Jacob, who will supplant the first Adam as Jacob supplanted Esau in the birthright, as Jacob crossed his arms to swap the birthrights of Ephraim and Manasseh, as Isaac supplanted Ishmael, even as Paul the Apostle told us plainly. God has repeatedly told us how this Christian empire will be supplanted by Jesus Christ in the last days, yet Christians do not see what is plain in the scripture because they want political and spiritual power over other men, rather than being like Christ and humbly desiring to be a servant of servants for the love of God rather than recognition of position.

We learn from the Bible that God doesn't value man's concept of the birthright of authority, and freely supplants the older with the younger, even as he will supplant the older religious and Christian empire of the world with the younger Jesus of Nazareth.

#Christianity #Religion #Cults #Idolatry #Church #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ChristoFascism #Gospel #Jesus

Down with the religious patriarchy.

"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

#patriarchy #religion #bible #church #haha

I think it's true - the reaction most of us feel against a Bad Other is stronger than our impulse to pursue any Good; at least when it comes to cooperating with other people.

It's significant, too, that he wrote this in the middle of Cold War polarization and not long after the Second World War.

#psychology #demonization #demonisation #religion #atheism #politicalphilosophy #erichoffer #quote #quotes #quotation

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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Eric Hoffer, 1951

How America’s First Nonbinary Minister Created True Equality in the Newly Born United States

"Nina Sankovitch on “Universal Friend,” the Genderless Messenger of God Who Aimed to Save Lost Souls and Preach Universal Salvation"

https://lithub.com/how-americas-first-nonbinary-minister-created-true-equality-in-the-newly-born-united-states/

#lgbtqia #religion #books

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Portrait of the Public Universal Friend by J.L.D. Mathies. The painting shows the Friend in simple, dark clerical clothing with a white cravat, hair pulled back in a queue (typical 18th-century style), presenting an androgynous appearance consistent with the Friend's rejection of gender categories. The serious, direct gaze conveys the spiritual authority the Friend claimed.

Did Children Really Go to War?

"This is one of the most interesting crusades of all—the Children’s Crusade."

https://www.thecollector.com/childrens-crusade/

#history #religion

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The Children’s Crusade, by Gustave Doré shows a large group of young people marching down a medieval street. Some people look on.

Islam contre judaïsme… Comment Jésus est-il perçu ?
https://investigaction.net/islam-contre-judaisme-comment-jesus-est-il-percu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=islam-contre-judaisme-comment-jesus-est-il-percu
Alors que certains dénoncent l’intolérance musulmane, l’article présente un tableau plus complexe : Jésus et Marie honorés en islam, contestés dans le judaïsme, et des chrétiens palestiniens pris dans les […]
#Politique #LAutreHistoire #MoyenOrient #NonClassifié(e) #Chrétiens #Judaisme #Religion

The Spiritual Role and Elegant Architecture of Japanese Temples

"Japanese Buddhist temples are more than just a collection of religious buildings. They are tangible theology offering us insights into one of Japan’s main religions."

https://www.thecollector.com/guide-japanese-temples/

#architecture #religion

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The Japanese Golden Temple (Golden Pavillion) is seen through some trees.

@timberwraith
@Dgun8

Often language has similar words or similar sounding words that people speak with incorrectly without really knowing or realizing it's misleading or not quite right.

There is a more specific words and less misleading versions of #words or #phrases...

➡️ For example "Common sense"
...might mean "Common principles"

"Sense" is similar to "principles" but importantly principles can be more specific or measured way of saying / doing things so a list everyone can see is more agreeable, rather than your own version of "sense" which might be differently measured than list of "principles".

Since EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT and naturally they have different personality, it's better to measure it a bit more clearly which a list of principles in the middle which can help indicate agreement or debate things with less #ambiguity.

➡️ Another example
(quick-fast / maybe not perfect)

💜 Love for others is perhaps top of the #list of #commandments for Jesus ✝️ and his principles - so clears up a lot of confusion between #Christian people or #Christianity or #Religion #debate - presenting a |Yes| or |No| simple question

We all need need to debate what loving people or looking after them means perhaps after that, but can assume better and not guess too not far off than even more general / unspecific words.

So if #love is top 5 on your list then a debate "Common sense" or "Common principles" about Jesus or something can be quickly agreed / answered rather than something #ambiguous.

#Lists are always good.

#CommonSense #List of #Principles
= #Answer for #Ambiguous #words or #phrases in #Debate

I was chatting with ChatGPT and suggested that the Bible read like Ayn Rand. The response:

http://philosophics.blog/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

That’s unkind to Ayn Rand. At least she knew she was writing fan fiction for her own temperament. If it’s literature, it’s literature in the same way a minutes-of-meeting document is prose.

#bible #biblestudy #christianity #worship #religion #reading #writing #history #critique #literature #philosophy #theology #criticalTheory #bollocks #faith

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Angels

I know #gerontocracy is the rule rather than exception in the U.S., but oh my, the #LDS Church is extreme. They make the Catholic hierarchy look like a K-pop fan club:

- LDS President Russell M. Nelson died a few months ago at 101

- he was succeeded by the current President, Dallin Oaks, who is 93

- Oaks's expected successor just died at age 85

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jeffrey-r-holland-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints-dies-85-rcna251120

#religion

"Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."

"For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."

"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:"

God is orders of magnitude beyond genius. But sadly Christians don't seem to think God can save on account of man's "omnipotent" free will thwarting God's plan.

The problem with the Christian religion is that their religious leaders think God needs their help to 'spread the gospel' and 'save souls'. In truth, God has been spreading the gospel in spite of the Christian religion perverting it for sixteen plus centuries.

#Bible #Christ #Christian #Jesus #Church #Universalism #Hellfire #Religion #Gospel

America traded its democracy for a silly book about talking snakes and six-hundred year old men.

Don't tell me #religion is an individual choice.

The Gnostic Gospels: An Introduction to the Forbidden Teachings of Jesus

https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/the-gnostic-gospels-an-introduction-to-the-forbidden-teachings-of-jesus.html

Gnosticism at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/10843

#religion

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"Papyrus 17 of Codex I or Codex Jung, from the Nag Hammadi Coptic Library, containing a part of the Gospel of Truth (NHC I,3 - NHC XII,2). English: Codex I, papyrus page 17. Gospel of Truth. The Nag Hammadi Library." - picyrl.com

From @jackmjenkins

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

#Christmas #ICE #Fascism #Religion

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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

A Heart For God. Or maybe a brain for God. I read a study once where they stimulated parts of many people's brains and found a tiny area that would give even atheists a religious/God experience. I found this fascinating...

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-heart-for-god-sharon-cummings.html

#art #fediart #mastoart #god #religion #gifts #giftideas #blue #faith #religious #hope #love #SharonCummingsArt #paintings #painting #artwork #spirit #spiritual #spirituality

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Blue heart and cross on white painting by Sharon Cummings.

Something extraordinary is happening in #Iran:

#Women are really really not giving a fuck anymore

What started as protests over the murder of #MahsaAmini by religious morality #police in 2022 for not wearing her headscarf simmered and now is snowballing. Women and girls are not wearing the mandatory #hijab at ever increasing rates

https://apnews.com/article/iran-hijab-mahsa-amini-protests-israel-war-d953ebfce090c044ac948aa5e476e7b1

#WomensRights #religion

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A man and a woman ride a motorbike in northern Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025

"During the neo-Assyrian empire (8th–7th century BC), the ritual of the šar pūhi, or “substitute king,” was a common practice for protecting the ruler from angry gods during both solar and lunar eclipses, which court astronomers of the period could calculate with some degree of accuracy...."

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#astronomy #ancienthistory #eclipses #solareclipse #lunareclipse #monarchy #religion

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Renaissance era painting of a famous event two thousand years earlier. Two people clutch each other fearfully as the eclipsed sun is visible through an arched window beside them

AP: Pope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is ‘crying out’

https://apnews.com/article/pope-climate-talk-video-climate-change-0b33de0843ee2fe7c19e13aeeb6e6d93?

#climateemergency #religion #climate

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"Supporters of the president, Masoud Pezeshkian, asked in reply: why is Europe, where women are free to expose their hair to the wind, so green? One headline read: “Why do atheist countries have more rain?”

#religion #drought #climateemergency