Keine Todesangst? Ettlinger Pfarrer hat seinen Grabstein schon seit Jahren daheim
Keine Todesangst? Ettlinger Pfarrer hat seinen Grabstein schon seit Jahren daheim
Technology has always shaped worship. 🔥🔔📜
Fire, bells, manuscripts, icons, architecture, microphones, livestreams, and digital platforms all structure how people gather, remember, pray, and encounter the sacred.
The modern world did not invent technological worship. It inherited it.
Radio and television did not simply broadcast American religion. 📻📺
They transformed it. Televangelism created new forms of ministry, celebrity, fundraising, political influence, and public scandal.
The pulpit entered the living room, and religious authority became inseparable from the power of mass media.
#Brewminate #Religion #Media #AmericanHistory
https://brewminate.com/radio-television-televangelism-american-religion/
AI is transforming religious life in ways that feel both practical and deeply unsettling. 🤖⛪
Chatbots can answer spiritual questions. Algorithms can help draft sermons. Digital tools can expand access.
But faith is not just information delivery. It is presence, trust, community, and meaning.
That is where the real debate begins.
#Brewminate #AI #Religion #Technology
https://brewminate.com/ai-transforming-religion-churches-to-chatbots/
Finally, a TikTok trend I can wholeheartedly endorse.
Fuck Scientology.

The Benedict Option is an ideological white flag. "We can't compete with open society, so we'll build walls instead." Adam Lee unpacks what that looks like IRL. by @daylightatheism.bsky.social
https://onlys.ky/protecting-secularism-in-religious-enclaves/
#Secularism #ChurchStateSeparation #PublicEducation #Religion #Humanism
Church attendance: 140 median in 2000. 65 pre-pandemic. 70 in 2025. This is the data behind the 'Christian revival' headlines. By @daylightatheism.bsky.social