pastors are IRL chatgpt, they were “hallucinations” before AI became a thing.
AI and religion both let hallucinations become the final product, and are accepted by people who are incapable of thinking rationally or doing basic checks to verify it, so it seems like a good fit to me.
AI actually is one of my primary supplementary tools for Bible study, with lumo being up there with Strong’s in its general usefulness overall. Basically couldn’t live without it. Also, makes for good third party retranslations from early publically available source texts.
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The parishioners oughta say…
Already happening.
Absolutely everywhere. Not as in literally everywhere of course, but in many many churches in many many countries.
I’m not sure I’d be able to tell.
There is a huge problem in the church with gpt sermons. The Pope had to make a declaration.
Source? I want to read it.
You probably don’t. It’s not a page turner
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
But it does make some decidedly good points about things like AI not being morally neutral, and reflecting the biases that exist already in society.
Compared to human pastors, who definitely are morally neutral, right?
ChatGPT, who art in the cloud, hallowed be thy slop
All it needs to do is train on a single book and a few gospels. It would probably actually be much more true to source than sermons written by people.
Problem is they’re already trained on the sermons posted online by the hatingest humans
True to source sure, an actual good sermon/speech is going to take more than that.
He turned water into whining fans.
"We start our reading with Psalm 22:
‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’
That’s a great question!"
You are so smart to think of jt and ask it!
I always thought they just read from the bible. I didn’t know that the pastors actually had to write their OC sermons each week.
Fun part, even thirty-years ago there were pastors (no idea how many) that didn’t write their own sermons. Even thirty-years ago there were services that provided series of sermons and sermons for pastors to use, and teacher their congregations. I heard that from a family member that was close to several pastors; they were a true-believer, after all. Kind of explained why there wasn’t a whole lot of diversity in what was being taught or which books were being read from for sermons.
Imagine, if you will, what it’s like today.
The sermon is basically open-mic time for the priest. They generally offer commentary on the gospel, how it relates with the other readings/psalms of that mass, current events and so on.
With the sermon being what it is, it’s one of the big ways in which a priest can influence their congregation. The priest doesn’t select the gospel, readings, psalms, etc. it’s all published in a book called a Missal, and does not change very often, so they can’t cherry-pick certain passages etc. Given as well that priests are regarded as (in effect) the “messenger from God”, parishioners will often alter their thoughts and behaviours based on these sermons.
Now, that being said, the priest is that church’s “store manager” - hired and appointed by the diocese and is responsible for more than just saying mass, they run the church. Think of what a store manager would do - HR tasks, maintenance, advertising, and so on - is all the head priest’s responsibility. If there was no priest to make a sermon, that church would have been shut down.
