The seepage of AI into Christian practice is disturbing | What does it mean when chatbots become digital pastors or religious music is bot-generated?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/25/christianity-belief-artificial-intellience-religion/
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Not much of a difference between human or robot hallucinations on this front
The people doing this aren’t Christians, they’re Americanists. Its a heretical sect of Christianity.
I guess when seemingly nothing is sacred anymore, it doesn’t mean much does it.
I was kind of expecting an article that at least broached the dangers of LLMs feeding back into users own expressed beliefs, and potentially providing a pathway toward radicalising them or even introducing dangerous interpretations of common religious themes for vulnerable users.
Instead this article is just an extended word salad that, somewhat ironically, reads like it was written by an LLM.
A universal fact of American Evangelical culture is that they have no taste, so this AI shit fits right in with the rest of the megachurch act.
Meh, their stuff is so predictable that it probably could have been done before LLMs came out
You know they will use the fuck out of it. It makes them look smart.
It’s getting quite dystopian nowÂ
I really want it to get less dystopianÂ
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
American Christians don’t actually read the Bible
Seems like there’s a risk that the chatbots might actually teach what’s in the Bible
It will be as inauthentic as human religion
It means they really are stupider than a sack of bricks. At least bricks contribute to society.
To be fair, Christian music seems like the genre where it could most easily be replaced by AI. It’s even more formulaic than modern country, and it’s a genre where lyrics about praising Jesus matter more than innate musical ability.
AI-generated Christian music actually makes sense, it’s always been pretty bland and tasteless anyway.
This was prophesied in the [Max Headroom episode “Deities”](https://archive.org/details/MaxHeadroomS2E2Deities). On that show, 20 minutes into the future, an AI cult becomes the third-largest Christian denomination on the planet (after Catholicism and The 700 Club) because they promise AI can bring dead relatives back to life.
AI is perfect for Christian gobbledygook. Accuracy isn’t a concern.
“Preacherbot sez that mass murder is cool, and Jesus ot would be cool with it”
IF so, AI shouldn’t get tax breaks as it has no faith
It is an injection of a little nonsense into an already nonsensical belief system.
These people aren’t religious in the sense that your great grandparents were. This is entirely about worshipping Silicon Valley as a vector in the culture war.
Just another false idol which they seem to love those
Hail the omnissiah! He is the god in the machine, the source of all knowledge!
They will probably be an AI Jesus released and they’ll think it’s the second coming. Hackers unite
Disturbing maybe, but not surprising.
AI appeals to those that are manipulative and greedy, and works well against the gullible, naive, uneducated – those people with critical thinking barriers down.
American Christianity is already all about grifters, so this’ll fit right in.
Let’s be real, most contemporary christian music sounded like it was written by a poorly trained LLM, before LLMs were a thing.
Simple and repetitive lyrics with a couple of callout words (blood, or washed or lambs, etc) over simple easy rock.
South park mocked it back when VHS was a thing …
“what’s wrong?” – THX-1138 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_YuvKYjwwQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_YuvKYjwwQ)
Yeah, nothing says following the word of Jesus like rejecting your fellow man in favor of soulless machines.
Cheap good sounding text without logical consistency that strokes your ego? Religion and LLMs are a match made in heaven.
Wouldn’t it actually be the greatest irony if the turn to AI Christianity actually exposed Christians to Christianity?
Religion doesnt have any requirement to be true to itself as long as you can keep getting people in
Conservatives are fucking weird man
>Picture 1: A pastor making up stories about what God wants
>Picture 2: An LLM chatbot hallucinating stories about what God wants
They’re the same picture.
We will have a machine god in no time.
The new level of evangelical grift will be mega-pastor chat bots. Live video created to run 24 hour religious sermons where people just milk money through donations in the name of Christ. This is exactly as awful as it sounds.
They worship stories, so why not computer generated ones?
It’s confirmed by beliefs that these “Christians” are just posers. And make us all look like dipshits.
Have you heard Christian rock before?
I assure you, the AI can’t do any worse.
Gun-toting Republican Jesus asks if you have done enough for the billionaires today?
like sermons and religious music wasn t slop already
nobody will notice the difference
It means everything is going according to plan!!!
Bwahahahaha…. bwahhahaha… bwahahahaha…..
It means they’re no longer Christian. But we all knew that for a while now.
It’s clearly idolatry, and shows the complete abandonment of any pretense of actual Christianity.
Your own personal Jesus.