RE: Christian evangelicals colliding with the singularity...

From: Rick Strongitharm (xllb@home.com)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 18:15:40 MST


They will fight it until they find a way to use it to further their own
objectives.

Rick Strongitharm

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-extropians@extropy.com
[mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.com]On Behalf Of Zero Powers
Sent: March 3, 2000 3:58 PM
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: Christian evangelicals colliding with the singularity...

>From: "john grigg" <starman125@hotmail.com>
>
>To be fair to Christians I will say that the majority would see nanotech as
>a great boon for humanity which would eventually be perverted by the
>antichrist who would use it in his bid for world domination. I don't see
>militant antagonism from mainstream Christianity, such as has occured over
>abortion.

I think there would initially be an outcry from the Christian fringe. But
eventually it would probably quiet down. I remember reading some Christian
propaganda about 20 years ago warning the faithful about the dangers of
computers and raising a ruckus about the fact that there was a supercomputer
in Europe nick-named "The Beast." Later the big scare was UPC codes as
precursors to the prophesied "mark of the beast."

Eventually the panic died down and now that everything you buy has UPC codes
on it Christians are as big consumers as any other segment in the US. Also,
any televangelist worth his holy collection plate now has his own web site.
So much for the holy technophobes.

-Zero

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