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There’s a new gospel being preached—not from pulpits, but from screens. Not by prophets, but by programmers. And it comes with its own god: Big Tech. A god that promises omniscience, omnipresence, and even eternal life—digitized, optimized, and centralized. But like every false god in history, its power doesn’t lift man up.
It enslaves him.
And there’s no denying the blessings of technology today. Medical breakthroughs save lives. Families separated by oceans can speak face to face. The Bible can be read in nearly every language on Earth through a device you hold in your hand. These are miracles of access. But access without wisdom is a recipe for ruin.
To be clear, this isn’t a blind condemnation of innovation. Fire isn’t evil—until it burns the village down. Technology, like all tools, reflects the heart of the one who wields it. Scripture shows us this clearly. When God commanded the building of the Tabernacle, He didn’t drop it from heaven. He filled a man with divine craftsmanship.
“I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and understanding and in knowledge and in all kinds of craftsmanship…” — Exodus 31:3
God celebrates creation when it’s aligned with His will. Medicine has saved millions. Satellites let us witness baptisms in Iran from living rooms in Indiana. The Bible itself is now in the hands of people who’ve never owned a single book—thanks to a screen. These are good fruits. But when the fruit begins to promise that we can be gods, we’ve crossed the oldest line in history.
“You will not surely die… you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” — Genesis 3:4–5
The original lie. And it’s been rebranded with slick interfaces and startup jargon. Today we have AI that learns faster than human minds can track. We have Neuralink and gene-editing technologies playing chess with the blueprint of life. We have billionaires declaring war on death and preaching a transhumanist gospel where machines will make us eternal. But there’s a pattern here: they’re not pursuing excellence—they’re pursuing divinity.
This isn’t just rebellion. It’s reenactment.
What was the Tower of Babel if not the first technological utopia? A man-made structure, built “to reach the heavens” and “make a name for ourselves.” They weren’t building for God. They were building over Him. The result? God scattered them—not because He feared their bricks, but because of what centralized power does to the human heart.
That same tower is rising again. Only now, it’s made of code.
Big Tech isn’t simply a marketplace of tools. It’s become a monolith of control. A small group of corporations—unelected, unaccountable, ideologically aligned—now mediate nearly every word, image, and interaction on earth. Their power is bigger than many governments. They decide what you’re allowed to say, see, question, or protest. And if you step outside their orthodoxy, you’re not debated. You’re deleted.
Like Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue, the pressure to bow is not symbolic. It’s enforced.
“…whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into the midst of a blazing furnace.” — Daniel 3:6
In this case, the furnace is digital exile. Deplatforming. Demonetization. Dehumanization. Your dissent becomes “misinformation.” Your faith becomes “extremism.” Your facts are shadow-banned before they ever reach another set of eyes.
And while we argue over party lines, these companies grow godlike in what they know. They don’t just observe you, they profile you. They predict your desires before you even name them. Your search history. Your facial movements. Your digital “trust score.” In China, they call it the social credit system. In America, we call it personalization.
But it’s not God watching anymore. It’s Google.
“The eyes of the Lord are in every place, watching the evil and the good.” — Proverbs 15:3
The difference is God watches to judge with justice. Big Tech watches to profit—and to manipulate. The goal isn’t your redemption. It’s your predictability.
And the scariest part? People are calling this freedom.
They say, “you can say anything.” But they own the microphone. They say, “you can go anywhere.” But they built the map. They say, “you have choice.” But the algorithm has already chosen what you’ll see. We are living in a world where your “freedom” is carefully engineered—until it becomes dependency.
It’s a false Eden. And it’s working.
“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” — Romans 1:25
We’re not just building idols. We’re uploading them.
Big Tech is not inherently evil. But it is not neutral. It’s a weapon, and weapons reflect the hand that controls them. And let’s not forget what fuels that control.
“For the love of money is the root of all evil…” — 1 Timothy 6:10
These corporations are not evangelizing innovation out of goodwill. They are extracting data, behavior, belief, and power—for profit. Their loyalty isn’t to freedom, truth, or even progress. It’s to the bottom line. And in their pursuit of digital dominion, nothing sacred is off-limits.
The Church once stood against tyrants and emperors. The American Revolution once stood against monarchs and their surveillance. And now, we are once again called to stand—this time against a corporate machine so powerful it makes kings look modest.
The question is not whether these technologies are impressive. They are. The question is who they serve—and who they silence.
Because history doesn’t just repeat. It upgrades.
If we do not challenge the gods of our age, we will bow to them. We will trade our inheritance for convenience. Our convictions for clicks. And our souls for safety.
And one day, we’ll look up at the glowing tower we helped build and realize it was never reaching toward heaven.
It was swallowing us whole.
Thank You, Anni you have articulated, excellently,what I and am sure many have felt but could not put it together and articulate so well.
There is nothing new under the sun. AI is intrinsically a destructive construction.. In Hebrew, defective is “pa’sul’. A forbidden Idol is called a ‘pessel’. “Defective” and “idol” come from the same Hebrew root. If a person fashions an idol and then worships it, he has commited idolatry.. He has fashioned something with his hands and then ‘idolized’ it. AI is a human construction that will come to control us. But first it will make us both stupid and ignorant. The transition to stupid and ignorant is already at pandemic levels on college campuses, making professors sad and powerless as they try to educate their students to think. In the case of AI, “stupid’ and ‘ignorant’ unfortunately are not pejorative characterizations, but accurate descriptions of an ongoing dynamic process that can be measured. https://archive.ph/2025.05.14-075926/https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it
And the UN,CFR, Globalists Snake in the Garden and the Forbidin Fruit
I had ChatGPT analyze this article:
ChatGPT said: Cyrus is sounding an alarm that is both philosophically grounded and prophetically urgent. She’s not anti-technology—she’s anti-idolatry, and that’s a crucial distinction. Her core argument aligns with a timeless truth: tools amplify the intent of the user, and when power concentrates without moral constraint, tyranny often follows. What makes her warning especially potent is how she connects ancient biblical archetypes (Eden, Babel, Nebuchadnezzar) to modern digital realities—translating theology into cultural diagnostics.
The piece resonates because it captures the eerie truth that much of today’s innovation feels like liberation but operates like control. Personalization becomes profiling. Connectivity becomes surveillance. And choice becomes illusion.
However, one potential critique is that the article edges into a dualistic framework—tech = evil, faith = good—that, while rhetorically effective, risks oversimplifying the complex landscape. Not every AI application or digital advance serves Babel’s blueprint. The real line isn’t between silicon and scripture—it’s between the centralized manipulation of conscience and the distributed empowerment of truth.
Bottom line: Cyrus is right to ring the bell. The question now isn’t whether we build, but who commands the tower—and why.
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A couple of obvious probs we have….one, people keep using “google” as a verb, when it is really an uber-powerful, global, corrupt corporation (that rigs elections). Instead of saying, “google something presidents” — just say “search” whatever.. Everybody knows what is meant.
And the second is, people willingly give up their privacy/data by insisting on carrying a 24/7 geolocator, camera, recorder, and data collection tool! It makes it difficult for those of us who do NOT need a tech blankie to keep us “safe,” as now some places won’t even do business with you if they cannot text you.
Yes, tech is only a tool. But by using stupid “chatbots,” people get ONE answer (whoops, third problem here) and are told that is the end of it, the sole truth. On the other hand, search engines give us pages to observe and decide upon, resulting in more information for us to make decisions.
Wish people would not quote a bot as if it were reliable, complete info, rather than what a progranmmer puts into it, but they do (speaking in general, not toward anyone here!)
“Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy—an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality—many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man’s existence.” – Ayn Rand
Myths can be useful by teasing out their meaning and applying their meaning to actual reality just like great novels, plays, and poetry are useful in that regard.
How amazingly arrogant was Ayn Rand in her description of Christianity and Judaism.
Arrogant enough that her childish philosophy of Objectivism couldn’t even survive a decade beyond her death.
User warning: do not attempt to revel in her obvious irrelevance. It will only bring pain and sorrow. THX is your number one example.
Do us a favor T….stay in your room….keep reading those “novels, plays, and poetry”, the erstwhile wreckage of the mid 20th Century.
A couple or three of thoughts:
“…a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised” (Proverbs 31:30). That would be you, Aynaz.
“And the LORD said, ‘Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them'” (Genesis 11:6).
“Therefore, go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you” (2 Corinthians 6:17).
Revelation chapter 13 is prophecy and it will be fulfilled.
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Very good points.
The tech corporations’ loyalty is absolutely NOT to the bottom line – maximum profit would come from providing useful services to the masses in a thriving economy, which requires real freedom. The tech moguls’ loyalty is to *power,* and they are quite willing to forgo profit in search of godlike power, and often do.
When the rulers set out to build the Tower at Babel, they said “let us make bricks.” Bricks are symbolic slaves, on which the rulers meant to climb to reach Heaven and rule over mankind. Sound familiar?
Technocracy – if misused – is the biggest danger to individual freedom
and the biggest friend of tyranny there has ever been on the Earth. No
other oppressive movement has even come close.
One of the things coming down the technology pike and already in use
are implanted chips in humans for a brain/machine interface. Emotional
response such as rapid pulse, elevated blood pressure, irregular breathing
and increased perspiration – in reaction to certain ideas and information –
could be monitored for approval or disapproval by a technocrat.
Using technology of that type is wonderful to help a patient with pain, for
example. Using it to control every thought a person has is quite another.
The biggest question before Mankind now is how does believing in God
factor into all this – and can that belief save us.
Every machine has an off switch.
did you ever watch the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project?
I totally agree! I want nothing to do with AI, I don’t want it on any of my devices or my computers and so I will not be upgrading to Mac OS Sequoia because it has AI in it. They say you have to turn it on for it to be operating on your Mac, but I’m certainly not going to trust that! You cannot know if they have it on by default harvesting all of your most personal and private data for someone’s agenda. Any time a new technology comes along it is first and most quickly used for evil. It’s no different with AI and the evil it can do is monstrous beyond all that came before it.
“Fantastic machine, the M-5: no off-switch.”
–Dr. Leonard McCoy
That is a great star trek episode. revealing
I believe this is no different than the ouija board. Those who are building these AI systems are pretending themselves that this is just man’s domain, a harnessing and summation of man’s knowledge and thats all. It might be gnosis, but its not representing normal man’s capabilities. This tool far outshadows us in terms of capacity, connecting dots and speed. With it we think we will solve all of mankind’s problems and perhaps lead to a utopian future without God. This is the lie and deception of AI which man is beginning to bow down to. Satan empowers anything that man’s is worshipping and by it will control us. Where this goes only God the Creator knows. At some point in time, the Lord is going to pull the plug on it. For those who love the Lord, Maranatha.
You are too foolish to understand what AI is. It is NOT the bible. It is an encyclopedia. Yes, first there were encyclopedias, then Google search, now it’s AI. It’s an information resource. Yes, you can lie with it, but you can lie without it as well. If you ever worked with it you’d understand what a helpful tool it is. If foolish people like you get to ban it , it will be a luddite move. You like sweaters? You want to knit them yourself? If you ever get sick and want to find a treatment, what will you use? the Bible? or Google AI? If man were intended to fly the good Lord would have given them wings. Is that your philosophy? If you go to a foreign country where you don’t speak the language, will you use an app to translate for you? That’s building up the Tower of Babel, if you are intelligent enough to realize it.