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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

Jesus 2.0 is an AI, and he's American

[-] cstross@wandering.shop 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

@dgerard I dunno if you've read it but one of the wellsprings of this lunacy is "The Physics of Immortality" by Frank Tipler (1997), in which an astrophysics prof tries to square the circle of cosmological expansion and the resurrection through simulation, outing himself along the way as a very conflicted Christian fundamentalist who is determined to torture relativity until he can derive Jesus ... https://archive.org/details/frank-tipler-the-physics-of-immortality/mode/1up

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

oh yeah

and for the present, just how incredibly many of the rationalist subculture turn out to be ex-evangelicals

[-] samiamsam@mastodon.social 4 points 1 month ago

@dgerard @rook

there are no white people in the bible

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

this is BIBLE ~~2.0~~ ~~3.0~~ 4.0!!

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