In praise of AI

Typical Middle Eastern iconic woman of the First Century. Pic courtesy of Modern Madonna Magazine (Special Christmas Tattoo Edition).

Wake up to the new modern, desolate, shape-shifting love that only organised religion can bring. That thing we all need to fill the god shaped hole in our otherwise pointless and vacuous lives, yes we all need a little lift now and again and of course religion needs our money, our devotion and our fine arse licking skills. No truth, no honesty, just tired out fairy stories, garbled half-history and histrionic followers who will believe anything because anything goes in modern and ancient religions. Everybody else is wrong and we're right, we hold the truth in golden books in the secret language of golden truth. That and many other things are facts that you can't challenge. If you do we'll just start a war, build fences and then persecute your kids. 

So I for one welcome AI and whatever indiscriminate censorship or oppression it might bring, at least, however cruel it'll have some machine logic at the heart (?) of things  that'll fry the circuits of any fleshly religious ritual. Yes, if you're bored of an evening just try explaining the holy spirit, justification by faith, the trinity, predestination, any of Islam's cock-eyed teachings or Judaism's exclusivity to a robot. Of course Sony may well be working on an electronic version of Pope or Buddha even as I speak. 

In some silicon cathedral he is preparing the way, activating the APs that will serve as disciples and teaching the angels the Mario-Cart tunes so they might serenade the masses. The white puff of a blown motherboard will signify his/her/its selection and coming...and the nerds will inherit the earth. He will proclaim whatever he likes and you'll listen but there will be no need to light candles to invoke or signify the presence of the divine, the faint hum of the cooling fans and the blue glow of LEDs will do all that for us. And there's no hiding place...the machine is all powerful he knows all your passwords and browsing history.