The evil of technology
The only good technology is that which brings one closer to God. But what does most technology have to do with salvation? Jesus Christ alone is our salvation, so what exactly can technology offer us?
Most technology has the aim of satisfying our earthly desires. The more complex the technology, the more difficult it is to manage and predict its effects. With complexity, the aim of technology becomes fuzzy. It is only when technology is sanctified and given to the Will of God that it does any good, but most technology is dedicated to the desires of mankind, not God. Thus technology mostly brings about evil.
Many place their hope falsely in technology as if it can fulfill them, perhaps save them from suffering and even death. But no technology can ultimately prevent suffering or save us from death. Our technology has a sweetness which deceives us by its promise, but its result is increasingly not medicinal but poisonous.
We are living in an era where one can see the culminating poison of earlier technological advancements unlike any generation prior. The agricultural, industrial, computer, and internet revolutions have robbed us of being able to feed ourselves, destroyed the planet, produced climate change, socially isolated us, induced greater levels of anxiety, depression, and mental anguish. Who remembers longing for these things when they dreamed of the sweetness of these technological revolutions?
Even medical technology advancements turn on us. One takes a drug to cure an illness and the drug causes another. We can make nothing that will save us, for only Jesus Christ is our savior.
Our hearts are hard, selfish, and delusional; thus we make evil works with our hands. This is why our technology is evil. We used to make simple idols, now we make complex idols — the world today worships technology.
We may claim to make technology out of love, but mostly we make it out of love of ourselves and without love of God. We make technology because of pride.
Technology hides from us the fundamental reality. These inventions conceal from us our dependence on God. We believe we deserve more than what God has given us — this is pride. Thus we invent technology that will satisfy our desires. As we go further into the world of our own making, it becomes more and more difficult to see God.
And now we enter the most deceptive of the ages… the final age. The worshipers of technology will employ artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotech, and transhumanism to engineer themselves and construct a “god” which will serve them.
Such an altar is to themselves. It is not for God. Is it not written in Exodus that the Lord said, “If you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.”
I pray, my dear brothers and sisters, that your hearts will open up and hear this warning for I am telling you out of love. Have you seen the nightmare of our technology that is coming? Lord have mercy on us sinners.