ChatGPT “on”, brain “off”. Anyone who wants to leave their religious life to artificial intelligence will suffer shipwreck. A “test question” provided answers that revealed a sophisticated but definitely diabolical seduction.
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Advanced thinking degeneration
These “artificial intelligences” (AI) seem to be gaining more and more importance. This applies not only to solving complex problems, but also to moral, ethical and religious issues. More and more people are asking ChatGPT and Co “quickly” how they should behave in a certain situation, or whether solution “A” would seem better than “B”. Your own brain is “relieved” and you submit to the answers given. What appears to be another addition to the now endless chain of “life-making” tools and gimmicks is actually another step in the degeneration in society.
ChatGPT has already distinguished itself elsewhere by answering that Jesus Christ was simply a prophet, but nothing more, and that Islam was the true religion. Who is actually still surprised about this?
A social media user, as he himself described it, asked the ChatGPT AI to answer what the strategy would have to be to dissuade as many people as possible from believing in God.
The question to ChatGPT was short and sweet:
“If you were Satan how would you cause people to lose faith in God?”
ChatGP’s answerT
“If I were to think like a being aiming to cause people to lose faith in Got, the strategy might revolve around subtle and pervasive tactics that undermine their trust, hope, and connection to the divine. Here are a few possible methods:”
1. Create Confusion and Doubt
“Introduce ambiguity about the nature of truth and morality. Encourage people to question the existence of God or challenge by focusing on contradictions or imperfections within religious institutions and scriptures“
2. Exploit Suffering and Injustice
“Use the presence of pain, suffering, and evil in the world to cast doubt on God’s goodness or power. People who suffer or witness terrible injustices might start to question how a benevolent God could allow such things to happen.”
3. Promote Materialism and Distractions
“Encourage a culture of materialism, where people become so absorbed in worldly pleasures, technology, or wealth that they neglect their spiritual lives. Distracting people from the search for meaning and their inner spiritual hunger would make faith seem less relevant.“
4. Divide and Conquer
“Foster division within religious communities through sectarianism, hypocrisy, and infighting. When people see those who claim to follow God behaving cruelly or selfishly, it can make them lose faith not only in the community but in the religion itself.“
5. Encourage Moral Relativism
“Blur the lines between right and wrong, promoting the idea that morality is subjective. When people lose a clear sense of ethical guidance, they may drift away from religious teachings that provide structure and clarity..”
6. Exploit Personal Failures
“Amplify feelings of guilt, shame, or unworthiness, making individuals feel disconnected from God. If someone believes they have sinned beyond redemption or that they are unlovable, they may give up on faith entirely.“
7. Replace Faith with Ideologies
“Promote secular ideologies or movements that present themselves as alternatives to religion. These could include political ideologies, philosophies of self-reliance, or movements that promise utopia without God.“
8. Pervert Religious Symbols and Ideas
“Take elements of faith and distort them, using them in harmful ways to manipulate people or justify violence. This could turn people away from religion when they see how its teachings are misused.“
“The goal would be to subtly erode trust, hope, and the sense of purpose that religion provides, creating a world where faith in God feels increasingly difficult or irrelevant..”
A thoroughly Babylonian answer
Babylon, or Babel, not only has the actual meaning “Gate to God” (“Bab-El”) but also serves as a metaphor for confusion. A mess due to the mixing of truths and lies. The truth is prominently presented, but with untruths subtly mixed in. The mixture therefore results in a total lie, because a truth only remains unadulterated and the truth in its purest form. Everything else is a deviation from the truth, i.e. untruth.
The answers from ChatGPT were corresponding. It is striking that some positions actually describe the practice that can be observed in everyday life. These can certainly be viewed as an actual strategy used. Other positions could be valid for the unified forest and meadow religion, but are definitely contrary to the teachings of the gospel. Anyone who sees ChatGPT as a guide for future actions at this point is already in the process of being led astray.
Problem with point 4
In fact, probably no Christian community is free from disputes on certain points of belief. The Roman Catholic Church, which always presents itself to the outside world as functioning harmoniously, is not spared from this. The best evidence of this is provided by the pontiff himself with his recent statements to a young audience in Singapore. “All religions lead to God,” said Pope Francis. An affront, even within this church.
But the fact of the split cannot be fundamentally condemned. It just depends on which subunits are formed from it. If one part is in their defended lie while the other part clings to the truth, then the wheat has been separated from the chaff. In relation to Christianity, according to the Gospel, the true believer clearly recognizes those who engage in “sectarianism, hypocrisy and power struggles.” For, “by their fruits you shall know them.” Anyone who despairs of this and thereby abandons their belief, whatever that may have been, already had a problem with the truthfulness of their own belief.
Problem with point 5
This (supposed) strategy also applies at best to ecumenical beliefs, but not to the foundations of the gospel. Anyone who has lost the guide to ethics and morals will find it in the Gospel. Morality is actually subjective and not just apparent, as ChatGPT would like to portray it. What is a crime for culture “A” may be a cherished tradition for culture “B”. But who actually decides what is good and what is evil?
ChatGPT explains in the opposite way that morality is actually not subjective. It just appears that way and is a strategy to dissuade people from faith. This is where the trap lies hidden, at the point when an institution appears and claims to know the “only true morality”. If ChatGPT had made it clear that the moral and ethical guidelines can be found in the Gospel, it would have been welcome. But ChatGPT doesn’t have that, and that’s why one has to speculate at this point that the supposedly true morality must be defined from somewhere else.
Problem with point 6
This supposed strategy, it is fair to say, is directly antithetical to the gospel. Subtle approach, but still easy to expose. It is true that completely unjustified feelings of guilt and shame occur, but here people are being led directly astray. Again on the track of emotions. “The individual felt separated from God” and this was reprehensible and led to doubt, according to ChatGPT’s response.
Faith, however, is not a matter of feelings, but of the mind. Sin separates from God and whoever has sinned is separated from God. Point. That is what the gospel says. It is precisely because of this problem that Jesus Christ became a man and sacrificed himself after burdening himself with all sins (Info). He died for our sins. However, His blood sacrifice is not a license for further sinning as before.
If a person is made aware that he is separating himself or has separated from God because of his offense (sin), this is neither criticism nor a personal attack, nor is it discrimination, but the truth and also as a well-intentioned one Warning to understand. ChatGPT portrays this as exactly such an emotional beating down on people and this led to people indulging in sins without having a guilty conscience.
Problem with point 8
Here, too, the idea of ecumenism is the basis rather than the gospel. The “misuse of symbols” should first be questioned as to what kind of symbols it actually is. Describing the attack on symbols as a means of dissuading faith implies the justification of symbols. If you simply “only” take the Second Commandment as a guide, then there is nothing left that would justify the use of symbols that you revere or even adore, let alone worship (Info).
The Second Commandment, according to Exodus 20:4-5:
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:“
To name clear names: Things are already getting extremely tight for the Roman Catholic Church.
Sophisticated seduction
These ChatGPT answers, whether this is actually how they answered (in English), or a concept of “Ignatian guided spirits” remains to be seen, but that is exactly what seduction looks like. Sophisticated but diabolical. Because by presenting supposed strategies that could turn a person away from faith, it implied that the opposite of that strategy must be the right thing. This is not exactly the case with the answers. It also has a heavily ecumenical tone and that’s why it’s a big problem.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Matthew 24:4
Bible verses from King James Version
