Speaking as a Satanist: we don’t believe in Heaven, Hell, or an afterlife, so we’re very much anti-apocalypse. This world is the only one we’ve got, so we don’t want it to end.

The only good that prayer can do is as a mindfulness exercise, and there aren’t any shortcuts for those.

So that’s what those are for? That’s like saying “I don’t need to go running. Look, I can just draw a stick figure in this book, flip the pages, and he runs for me!”

That thing would make me want to start praying if it’s very existence didn’t prove that there was no god.

What’s wrong with effective altruism?

I don’t know how you could read the Bible and not think that’s where those are fuckers are going.

Apocalyptic religions? Where the apocalypse is a good thing? Those are scary.

These are conservatives. They won’t tolerate a woke AI.

Because they think that they’re going to be the ones who are rewarded, not the ones who will be punished.

This is Christianity.

Never forget that Christians think that the apocalypse is a good thing.

I was thinking of another word that starts with S.

Where there was once purported atheism, there is now “a very loud, very visible and very specifically Christian-inflected technological culture” in Silicon Valley, said Damien Williams, a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who studies how technologies are shaped by religious beliefs.

Danger. Danger.