Patriarch: Instead of relationship with God and spiritual purification, they offer a life where robots will have a dominant function and human inferiority will be replaced by artificial intelligence
Unbelievers realize that no person is perfect, but instead of relationship with God and spiritual purification, they now offer a life where robots will have a dominant function on the one hand and human inferiority will be replaced by artificial intelligence on the other hand, - the Patriarch said in his Easter Epistle.
In addition, as Ilia II pointed out, “At the same time, atheistic modern thinking prepares to create a different reality and seeks to reconsider the fundamental principles of human existence in order to blur the line between the real and the imaginary, between the human, mechanical, animal and chimerical through arbitrary modeling, and to establish new, unknown forms of power and control.
According to him, those who have closed their spiritual eyes and do not believe in God or in His resurrection obey completely different rules and think differently.
“Philosophers call this period of development of society post-humanistic and point out that there is a deliberate violation of the generally existing norms, degradation of state institutions and structures, degradation of the level of education, destruction of the foundations for in-depth thinking; and in the wake of the "crisis order", the formation of such a cognition is promoted, where national feelings have disappeared, the traditional identities that define humanity - "man" and "woman," "family values - are erased," the Patriarch said.
As Ilia II explained, in such a space, the classical understanding of society is slowly disappearing, the feeling of insecurity among people is increasing and the human factor is losing its importance. "This is strengthened by the sharply negative attitude towards religion in general and the Orthodox Church in particular, by some media outlets, by using hate speech, supporting and encouraging organized personal and institutional discrediting attempts.
“Unfortunately, no one feels good in this space and everyone faces a great ordeal: even the representatives of the "new world", as technical progress has advanced so far and the spiritual development of society has lagged behind so that the innovator has been weakened himself and is governed by his creature. The gap between them will deepen in the future, and this is one of the essential problems, otherwise technical advances, of course, bring goodness as well, but in the hands of ungodly and spiritually deprived individuals it will lead to disastrous results," reads the Patriarch's Easter Epistle.
