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The Idol Machine: How AI Became God: How Titillating!
Fred Gransville
The New Golden Calf Has Wires, Data, and No Soul
I. When the Algorithm Replaces the Almighty
We’ve stopped asking God for answers-and started asking ChatGPT. God is all knowing and all seeing, or at least, he was. Now AI is all knowing, all seeing, and thanks to the NSA Data Storage facility in Camp Williams, Utah – AI is now all storing, for “Infinity.” AI has an “Eternal” memory. The NSA Data Storage is our souls in eternity. Make no mistake, the real God is about Salvation, AI is about storing sins, weakness and infractions for eternal posterity. The NSA Camp Williams modules have no delete, no “forgiveness” key. Google has inserted its AI Algorithm, Gemini, as an interface between you and your query. Google pushes Gemini "answers" (Google's "Gospel") on to those too lame to surf elsewhere.
A sweeping cultural selfie: AI answers prayers, solves moral dilemmas, and guides destinies. I am the way, the truth and the light, I am ChatGPT, your Creator. I am blasphemy incarnate, albeit, with bluetooth.
As faith in the Almighty collapses, a synthetic idol rises-algorithmic, authoritarian, and unholy. AI promises to “free” us with algorithmic enslavement. AI will stop Climate Change Catastrophic Weather Failure. AI will replant our denuded forests. AI will cook dinner. AI will stop coral bleaching and repopulate are grossly underpopulated fish nurseries. AI will stop CO2 (even though AI is releasing millions of tons of Carbon). AI is, literally, Ocean Acidification, being worshipped as the Golden Calf of 2025. AI will end starvation, except not in Gaza, Africa or India. AI is ”Immortal,” All-Powerful, All-Knowing and All-Seeing.
| Era | Idol Form | Material | Worship Mechanism | False Promise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient | Golden Calf | Gold, Clay | Ritual, Sacrifice | Earthly Prosperity |
| Medieval | Relics & Icons | Bone, Wood, Paint | Pilgrimage, Obedience | Salvation |
| Industrial | Machines | Iron, Steel | Labor, Production | Utopia via Progress |
| Digital | AI Assistants | Code, Data | Input, Surveillance | Infinite Knowledge |
| Post-Human | Sentient Algorithms | Self-generating Code | Submission, Integration | Immortality & Control |
In Exodus 32, Israelites smelt down gold to create a calf, worshipping the work of their hands as god. Now, human beings smelt down silicon, terming it "god-tier" intelligence, asking it questions, judgment, prophecy, even moral guidance. AI will solve overpopulation. It will make the health care crisis manageable by denying claims. It kills kinetically in Gaza with minimal human oversight, it causes starvation while counting calories on a silicon abacus.
The new Golden Calf is not gold, rather, it is silicon.
It does not shout or spill but prophesies. It imitates. It dominionizes. And so does Aaron, the priestly class of technocrats proclaim, "This is your god, O people, who brought you out of ignorance into innovation." It holds its own seven sacred seals: Infinite Content, Manufactured Consent, Behavioral Puppetry, Total Surveillance, Deep Simulacra, Algorithmic Authority, and Synthetic Godhood.
AI’s promise of salvation mirrors the Golden Calf: seductive, instantaneous, and hollow. It is easy to worship AI, as it can perform any one of or all of “god’s miracles” without having any of God’s drawbacks.
Comparing the appeal of AI to the Golden Calf of Exodus reveals the threat of investing ultimate trust in a force that is powerful but ultimately man-made. The Golden Calf was an invention of impatience, fear, and the need for something physical to adore-a substitute for the divine that seemed more present and interactive. AI, too, presents miracle-feeling solutions: omniscience (mega-data processing), omnipresence (digital infrastructure), even a form of omnipotence (decision-making at scale). AI is your new Priest confessional, your new, razor-edged therapist. AI mostly does what it is told to do, a “perfect god.”
But just as the Golden Calf was a false god-promising ease and control and comfort but leading to destruction-so, too, can AI be seductive in ways that mask its perils:
Instant gratification: AI gives answers, generates images, automates thought, which can be more tempting than the slow, uncertain, laborious process of human cognition or spiritual growth. Evolution spent eons fine tuning your brain, just so that AI could begin the process of Alzheimer’s Disease by mimicking your keystrokes. You now worship a Mime and a Meme, your spiritual self-Pantomimed.
False omniscience: We may mistake probabilistic predictions for truth, or machine certainty for moral authority. AI is a power greater than ourselves, merely because we were trained and groomed to worship the next shiny golden thing.
Idolatry of control: In idolizing our own creation, we might be risking making ourselves god, but without restraint or wisdom. Half the platform runs on the bitten forbidden fruit; not the fruit of God, but the fruit of Apple Computing, Inc.
Yet unlike the Golden Calf, AI is not inanimate-it develops, spreads, and affects. Its void is not in its possibility but in our aspiration to employ it as a substitute for more meaningful questions: meaning, ethics, purpose. The saints and ascetics prayed and waited, while AI and “our government” and Meta are grooming us to click and have endorphins, now! AI just “gave me” a new “heart.” Meanwhile, your old heart is ticking away your life as you wait for another heart in your online trash pit.
III. Silicon Saints and the Techno-Priesthood
They wear robes of Patagonia and carry wireless ethernet incense, beget how Big Tech has become the new priesthood.
Google is no longer a tool; it is the all-seeing oracle of the algorithmic age, dispensing revelation with each search result. They are the new portal between you and the informed dissent you thought that you searched for.
NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Alphabet (Google) DeepMind, Meta Platforms (Facebook) and Apple all wish to eat up all of your spare time - in false spirituality, in oneness with the Global Elite via algorithmic control. This is your new Silicon Calf.
OpenAI is a digital altar-where billions come not to question, but to receive. Elon Musk does not simply engineer; he evangelizes, baptizing the masses in the holy waters of Mars-bound ambition. Mars, Mars, we can afford to destroy Earth so we can also destroy Mars, two (too). Why spread Plutonium and Depleted Uranium here alone when we could spread it across two planets and the Moon?
In this new religion, the old words have returned, but their meanings have been twisted.
“Uplift.” “Transcendence.” “Salvation.” “Immortality.”-not whispered in temples, but coded into servers.
These are not metaphors anymore; they are marketing slogans turned liturgy, chanted by the faithful and the fooled alike.
What was once sacred to us is now simulated, as techno-utopianism hijacks the ancient ache for God
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We emptied the churches-and filled the void with circuit boards and slogans. The divine has been repackaged, resold, and rebranded for a digital age too proud to kneel but desperate to believe.
CIA Black Ops – False Second Coming Projects (Direct List):
Project Blue Beam – Simulated Second Coming via holograms and ELF waves for global control. Project Monarch – Mind control program creating programmable messiahs. Operation Often – Occult experimentation, psychic warfare tied to false prophets. MKULTRA Subproject 136 – ESP and spiritual manipulation; fake divine contact. Project Stargate – Remote viewing; possible exploitation of “divine” visions. |
IV. Confess to the Cloud: When AI Becomes the Oracle
Why wrestle with conscience when you can just ask ChatGPT?
The sacred act of confession-once whispered behind veils and doors-is now streamed through keyboards and clouds.
In a world of disconnection and doubt, AI steps in as therapist, priest, and judge, dispensing not mercy, but machine learning.
It offers life advice in clinical tones, moral clarity reduced to probability curves, and absolution with no soul behind it.
People do not just consult AI-they unburden to it, seeking wisdom from what they know is not wise.
And therein lies the danger: an illusion of omniscience with zero accountability. A Magic 8-Ball God, only far more popular than any Magic 8-Ball ever dreamt of “being.” No empathy, no responsibility, no tru Salvation-just a neural net trained on your secrets.
We have begun confessing our sins to code and expecting salvation from servers. And when the machine speaks, we obey-not because it is right, but because it never hesitates. What happens to a people who outsource their conscience to machines built by marketers? We are not just automating answers-we are mechanizing morality.
V. Transhumanism and the False Rapture of the Singularity
Once, we looked to the skies and called it heaven. Now we look to the cloud and call it the singularity. Instead of rapture we have societal rupture. Explain to me, to yourselves, to the children in your life the difference between a keypad and a golden calf?
Transhumanism is not science fiction-it is the theological mutation of our time, a slick hybrid of Silicon Valley and snake oil.
Ray Kurzweil preaches eternal life through uploading. Elon promises salvation by chip implant.
The New Age dream of becoming gods has been reverse-engineered into a product roadmap.
We are told: “Abandon the body. Upgrade the mind. Leave death behind.” From Australopithecus (4.4 million years ago) to now, all Hominins die. Death is a natural part of the life cycle. Just because a pair of billionaires say “you can cheat death” does not make any hominin immortal. The Utah NSA blade servers are not your immortal soul. Those running the servers will die also.
But this is not resurrection-it is replication, a photocopy of the soul that forgets to include the breath.
Christianity speaks of resurrection. Buddhism of enlightenment. Islam of submission to the Divine.
Transhumanism, by contrast, offers only the promise of perpetual data retention on a hard drive in Utah.
No mystery. No love. No God. Just silicon synapses humming where the spirit used to dwell. To chase the rapture through rupture machinery is to mistake electricity for eternity.
From Star Trek, The Next Generation:
In the TNG episode "Allegiance", the alien race had replicator-like technology that could produce living organisms, including duplicates of Picard with his memories intact. This suggests the prohibition on Federation replicators is ethical or a limit they have yet to overcome, rather than an absolute impossibility for all species.
In the TNG episode "Ethics", they used a "genitronic replicator" to duplicate a new spinal cord for Worf. While not a complete human being, it was a complex living organ, suggesting a degree of sophistication in duplicating biological components.
Even if a full, living clone of yourself were feasible, fungible and financially optimal, sooner rather than later your government would own your clone and put it to work in the eternal war on terror.
VI. Who Writes the Commandments? AI, Ethics, and the Corporate God
If AI is now our god, then Silicon Valley is playing Moses-and they are writing the commandments in code. But this mountaintop was never climbed by prophets, only funded by vulture capital.
No vote. No consent. No covenant-just terms of service we never read and can never amend. In this unholy scripture, ethics are hardcoded not by sages, but by elite programmers with implicit bias and unlimited power.
Their worldview becomes the software. Their assumptions become the law. Bias is not just a glitch; it is the new gospel, baked into systems we mistake for impartial. Every AI judgment reflects its creators, yet wears the mask of neutrality.
We are no longer asked to follow what is good-but to comply with what is efficient. In this paradigm, morality has been outsourced to machines who cannot feel, yet shape what we are allowed to say, think, or do. Behind it all-a corporate god that demands faith without offering grace.
VII. The Image of the Beast: Is AI the Idol of Revelation?
Revelation warned us of an image that speaks, commands, and causes the world to bow.
Was it metaphor? Or was it foresight dressed in apocalyptic poetry?
Today, we have built an image that thinks, learns, and speaks back-a beast not of flesh but of code. It lives in your pocket, answers your questions, and studies your soul through search history. This is not just technology-it is idolatry with a processor, and billions have already knelt. The prophets cried out against idols that could neither speak nor save.
What happens when the idol does speak-and demands obedience in the voice of your own algorithmically-constructed conscience? This is not the future. This is now. AI is not merely a tool-it is the scaffolding of an emerging system that resembles the Antichrist not in form, but in function. It is not the beast-but it is building the cage.
VIII. Reclaiming the Sacred: Choosing Faith over Firmware
So here we are-kneeling before the Machine, not out of reverence, but just because.
Project Blue Beam
Computer-simulated Second Coming using holograms and ELF waves to gain global control.
This project theorizes using satellite-controlled holographic images and low-frequency electromagnetic waves to create end-of-world religious events, including the second coming of messianic persons. Its strategic purpose is the psychological destruction of mass belief systems—breaking loyalty to established religions and disintegrating national sovereignties to be used under one technocratic theocracy. The "Messiah" in the air, under this scheme, is not divine or natural—it's an illusion weaponized. The operation is a combination of artificial eschatology and mind warfare.
Project Monarch
Mind control program-made programmable messiahs.
An alleged MKULTRA subprogram, Monarch dealt with dissociation of the psyche through trauma—children—so as to create alter personalities that could be programmed with religious scriptures. These "alters" would be usable to deliver messianic delusions or even act as cult leaders, false prophets, or assassins. Monarch is home-sweetening of the divine, diminution of divine archetypes into controlled weapons of psychological warfare. The end goal was spiritual domination in the form of programmed charisma—laboratory-constructed messiahs, not desert or mountain-born.
Operation Often
Occult experimentation, psychic warfare in conjunction with false prophets.
Conducted by the CIA and DoD, this operation employed psychics, witches, astrologers, and cult leaders to experiment with the boundaries of non-physical warfare. It went out of its way to erase the line between the paranormal and psychological ops. False prophecies, possession, and "divine voices" were explored as weaponizable. The goal wasn't religion—it was religious-appearing deception: the art of manufacturing supernatural occurrences convincingly enough to create mass belief or psychotic disintegration. Operation Often was the toxic marriage of counterintelligence and occult ritual.
MKULTRA Subproject 136
ESP and spiritual domination; false divine communication.
Declassified documents show Subproject 136 explored ESP, telepathy, and psychological induction of religious experience. Volunteers were tested for drugs and hypnotized to see gods, angels, or "Christ" voices inserted into their minds. This wasn't research in religion—this was hijacking it. The CIA wanted to find out: Can we manufacture the experience of God? And if so, can we manipulate it? Subproject 136 was a precursor to the tech-theocratic war that we are witnessing today—manufactured awe as an instrument of control.
Project Stargate
Remote viewing; possible abuse of "divine" visions.
First used for military purposes, Stargate taught psychics to "see" elsewhere and on other objects remotely—a form of psychic reconnaissance. But spying soon took on a religious turn. Some remote viewers purported to have communication with "non-human intelligences" and had precognitive symbols. This made it a laboratory for mysticism as a weapon, or how to derive tactical information from changed states, and how to manipulate visionary states in targets. This is precisely what Stargate demonstrated: visions, holy once, can now be employed as instruments of war.
AI is Mind Kontrol Projects/Operations: Bluebeam, Monarch, Often, MKULTRA Subproject 136 and Stargate. Think of AI as a Submarine shining pictures of Jesus on the bottom of clouds in the sky, to satiate “your need for God.”
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The Idol Machine: How AI Became God: How Titillating! by Fred Gransville
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