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Assunto: Re: What does it mean when men build a shrine devoted to worshiping a tool? Any new technologies, advanced or not, are just that.. they are tools. They are not gods.
Iamon lyme: Neither is the Bible... it's just a tool book, the cross.. just an icon, the ten commandments... just words. Yet many people who say they are men (or women) of God keep saying these are sacred. We must do this.. because the Bible says so..
But if so, then they have in fact abandoned the first principle of being Children of God. Freedom to be an unmoved mover
No-one mentioned worshipping a 'shrine'... or as commonly known, a statue or sculpture. Just showing a mark of respect to someone who helped save lives and 'invented' the ideas behind modern computing.
Like with war cemeteries.. shall we take all the acknowledgements down given to those who have fallen in defence of others?
"So, depending on whether you believe in God or not, here are our options... we can worship a God who created us in His image, or we can be the gods who create tools in our image."
who says there are only two options? This is a world of colour not of monochrome as rightly pointed here...