Pope says technology can't replace God

The Pope is wrong. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from 'god'.

This is where all the Apple Jacks jump out and start defending their messiah and the holy church of rotten fruit!!

Richard Dawkins, I Love You!

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May I ask of you, sir Pope, will all the God in the world replace even a single aspirin pill, let alone the vast ocean of good science and technology has given to humankind?

I'm not trying to popularise my blog but I wrote an open letter to him and it won't fit here so... (siddharthya.info/miscellaneous/dear-mr-pope/)

Technology is only a tool. It's what we choose to do with that tool that matters. I choose to use it for good. Ken Starks over at HeliOS does the same thing. In fact, what he's doing with technology and kids is what my Christian friend called a "very Christian thing to do." Of course, cyberstalking and other not-cool things are bad stuff. It's all about how one uses the tool.

However, if Microsoft Windows is all that Pope Benedict has seen of technology, I guess I can't blame him then. :-) Yay for Free Software!

It seems to me that technology can easily replace religion. After all, both Apple fanbois and the religious fanatics blindly believe whatever their leader tells them, without regard to "reality checks."

Really, what's the difference between Steve Jobs and the Pope, when you come right down to it? Both are old, iconoclastic, narrow-minded, greedy bastards whose primary goal is to collect as much money as possible from the stupid sheep who follow them (and both are pretty successful in that).

Technology won't replace God but it will replace the Pope.

http://www.contactgod.com

Pope is the Nazi leader of the World's biggest pedophile ring. No-one needs lessons from the likes if him.

The Pope, nor the Church is bashing technology, and it is unfair of the writer, and the commenters to characterize the Pope this way in a classic straw man argument. It appears that most here disdain the Church and are looking for a way to easily discredit it, but because the arguments are so obviously wrong, you mostly make yourselves look hateful and unintellectual.

The Pope is not addressing technology but man's use of it. The statements are centered on people, not on things. For you to say that the Church is a narrow-minded and anti-science because of its warnings, is really to say that you can't read a statement for what it is, but only for what you want to see it as, and you all look foolish and blinded by your anger because of it.

You don't agree with the Church, fine, you don't have to. You're angry about abuse and cover-ups, good and well, so am I. You'll get nowhere toward your goals, or understanding truth by making stupid statements like these.

It's reason, not technology that is saving us from Religion. Technology is a by product of that reason, and Religion relies on the lack of reason, as you take things on faith... Which of course really means faith is the absence of reason, I fail to see how anyone can be religious in any way once you properly delve down and get a good, non secondary school understanding of The Way It Really Is, because doubt really goes out the window.

I find it insulting that because I am non religious that I have no moral compass. I worry about those who need to be told their morals by a book.

Believing in god is just a shortut to thinking.
It's truly amzing that people still believe these stories.

@batmun

No one reads posts 3 paragraphs long you clown.

Dude, you win the internet. Best comment of the day hands down.

What has God ever done for us? Instigate wars; turn the feeble-minded into emotional wrecks. He certainly has not eliminated disease and disasters; in fact, He's the blighter who instigated disease and disasters. Scum bag.

What has technology ever done for us? Pretty much everything, from stone axes to toilets to safe food and medicines, on and on...

God is worse than worthless: be gone with Him!

Catholic Priests have been molesting children long before technology came around and technology has actually helped expose them... I kid (even though there is a lot of truth to that statement)

Now I am a religeous person myself, baptised and confirmed (not catholic) and although I'm not an active worshipper I do try to be a good person.

I do however believe in all the sciences and am an avid technofreak but unlike the pope seams to think, i don't want to be god or even anything like him, technology helps better my life and those who live and work around me, without technology, sure it would probably be more like the most die hard religious people would want with no cars, medicines, people dying from all sorts of plagues, natural disasters, etc, etc, but at least then it would be gods will!

it is interesting that although the pope bashes technology the Vatican website remains fully intact with all sorts of information...http://www.vatican.va/ how does that expression go? pot- kettle - black (very sad)

Either the great iProphet Steve J of Cuptertino is really heaven sent, or else I'm waiting for Moses 2.0 to crack down on all this false idol (icon) worship.

Show your dedication to the sacred Golden iCalf?

There's an App for that. (R)

My pope is right, now stop using tech or i'll cover your asses in boils! ....................i have spoken

I'm sure God doesn't have an inferiority complex the Pope seems to have, thinking that every technological aspiration is an attempt to one-up the supreme being, nor needing to enact divine retribution just to reinforce the point.

"He said that technology has helped Mankind, but that it has also increased the possibility for evil"

Ah, there they go again, the heretic religious leaders deflecting human responsibility for sins. Was it the technology of currency that caused Judas to sell Jesus's whereabouts to the Romans? It is no wonder religions are held in such low regard when their heretics reveal only the worst that mankind has to offer.

There's an app for that.. :P

The difference between a “Pope/Ayatollah/Brahmin/Lama” and Divinity is that without worship, a “re-presentative”/reseller of The Divine will disappear whereas Divinity will always be there whether the-reality/Reality is at The Ending or at another Beginning. A simplicity which eludes - especially those who finds it difficult, to loosely quote, “To Pass Through The Eye of a Needle”. One is about selling/ownership issues and the other, the complete lack of even the concept of ownership. Hands up those who need to tell all about the little miracle of, say, vision. Seeing a “pope” turning into a saviour, why it must be heard all the way to the other end of the material cosmos - with ecstatic sounds of young things resonating in the background. Slurrp …. For their sakes, when you deny your hormones, oka “Nature”, you will firstly become guilty and then angry and then revert back to guilt and on and on the addiction goes. All ending in some big banging of some kiddo no less. Sluuurrrpp …… to be repeated because that is the nature of an addiction, oka not learning but being taught over and over again.

As some babbling Lama, the one who offers comfort to those who believe in their ego-conditionings more than God through some lovey-dovey, goody-2-shoes spoutings, that after babbling about, “The Sun Shines”, and, “We are all brothers and sisters”, nothing has changed nor will it change. Like this pope-ing declaration, talking about the obvious not only gives ritualism a bad name, but it gives Divinity a bad name too - which is why the duty of religiosities, especially the religion of blinded-cum-blind faith, is to actually turn normal humans into doubting/skeptical humans. Well done you popey thingy you whilst bearing in kind that religion is the knowledge which lacks empowerment.

Vun beeleons to vun [bet] that “The Pope” has never, ever, met his god, let alone God The Almighty who is verily Love The Almighty, Love being the state when Truth Flows, the flow being also known as Tao, Truth being the first order/The Principle/Potential and Love being the second order/The Kinetic. As all good overclockers know, when flow is lacking, accumulation is in ascendancy. Sumpfing that “Popes” [especially] find it hard to comprehend, let alone realise and all because the illusional-cum-delusional imagines that his cup is full - of ritualism and blind beliefs. For those spitting venom or coughing blood, realise that when you are truthful to yourself, the one who do not deny The Truth, should you be blindly believing, shouldn’t your first duty be to admit to it and then seek further a-field? Of course not …. because the worship is there, excused as worshipping God. And long may they tango into the sunset and beyond. The blind leading the blinded. Ahhh, what a pair - how sweet is thy belief !

I just shot got in the face with a multiphasic beam. Now I am your god.

"He said that technology has helped Mankind, but that it has also increased the possibility for evil"

Yes, it's allowed catholic priests guilty of child abuse to be moved about to new areas where they are unknown.

In the good old days they could have been dealt with by the locals, assuming there were any capable of thinking for themselves.

technology can't replace god, just good dope can !

and no one can replace the internet without adversly affecting the delicat pornographic elements of mother nature..

I think about 85% of all tech is made by the Devil himself

Crashing, bugged, un-finished .. seems Devil's work to me

Science can fly man to the moon.
Religion just flies man into buildings.