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Re:When AI Is Your Pastor: Benchmark for Theological Triage ... by beardyw on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:17PM (#48576228)
Treating creedal claims as personal preferences, False equivalence with non-Christian beliefs, Framing orthodoxy as one option among many

Wow, I'm a Christian and I am not sure I want to be told those are failures. That list is more akin to what you get in extreme authoritarian regimes. I'm hoping there's some room for Jesus.

Re:When AI Is Your Pastor: Benchmark for Theological Triage ... by bwestergard on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:56PM (#48575043)
I could only laugh out loud at this.

I'm no expert in European religious history, but it is an interest of mine and I've read a fair bit more than the typical American about it.

I am certain that every church father and major theologian from antiquity to the early modern period would have condemned without reservation the very idea of building a machine to answer theological questions. Possible exceptions, like Ramon Llull, prove the rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull

Given the prevalence of stories about Djinn and Golems in Islamic and Jewish literature, it feels safe to say they would have looked askance at this idea as well.