Millions are turning away from the Creator, but according to Glenn Beck, they’re not becoming secular.
They’re just trading one god for another.
“They will bow down to the new god of silicon and circuits,” Beck said in a recent monologue. “They will trust it. They will worship it. They will defend it. They will obey it. They will not question.”
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Beck warned that society has become what he calls “material and technological fundamentalists,” blindly trusting algorithms and data over faith and spiritual discernment. “Truth can be discerned with numbers running through a machine. But not by silence and listening for that still small voice,” he said.
As artificial intelligence advances, Beck believes it will present itself as something divine. “Like a messiah, it will promise unbelievable miracles. It will cure disease. It’ll be a solution for climate change, even the end of death itself.”
But he raised the question, “Or will that be the end of death? And at what cost?”
Beck compared this rise of AI to the biblical warnings about false prophets, saying, “They deceive so many into abandoning their god, the God, because they can see this lesser god of their own creation. What greater deception than a machine that claims to be the savior of mankind?”
Despite his deep concerns, Beck made it clear he is not rejecting AI entirely. “I will not deny this tool,” he said. “As long as I’m in control of this tool, I will not deny the use of this tool because we can do miraculous things with it.”
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Still, there are lines he will not cross.
“I will never accept it inside of my body. I’ve never inject something into my head so I can think like the machine,” he stated. “This will become a god without a soul, a god without love, a god without mercy, a god of cold, calculating logic. That’s what it is.”
With society racing toward technological dependence, Beck echoed Elon Musk’s term for this moment: “the event horizon of the singularity.” He added, “You could just say at the biggest crossroads in history that humans have ever been.”
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
