The Unholy Trinity of AI
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." - Voltaire.
They’re buying up the land, not for farming, not for housing, but for processing. The biggest tech conglomerates on Earth, those loudly claiming to fight climate change, are turning Eden into infrastructure. Data centers are the new temples. Rows upon rows of servers, needing oceans of water to cool their insatiable heat, and an unbroken flow of energy to keep the machines alive.
This is not sustainable development. This is planetary reformatting.
With the rise of AI and rumours of quantum computing on the horizon, the physical and resource demands will explode beyond today’s already staggering scale. And as the machines scale up, human roles scale down. Organic workers are being phased out in every industry, replaced not by humans but by hardware. Efficient, obedient, easily monitored artificial agents. What we’re watching is the quiet handoff from people to programs. The technocracy isn’t coming... it’s already here built off the backs of willing software engineers, data engineers, and networking engineers on the ground; with perhaps only a few aware of the colossal machine it could become.
Digital Eden, Technocratic Gospel
If the 20th century was defined by ideology; fascism vs. communism vs. liberalism, then the 21st will be defined by ontology. What does it mean to be human in a world where AI wears a halo?
We’re watching as creation is converted into computation. Vast stretches of natural land are being stripped, wired, and built over. The world is becoming a motherboard... One big cooling unit in service of artificial cognition. This isn’t wild speculation; this is the trajectory we’re on. Call it Matrix Realism: a future in which the Earth’s surface resembles that of a machine world, every patch of soil traded for silicon, every tree felled to feed the cloud.
The irony? The very companies warning us about rising temperatures and natural disasters are building infrastructure that depends on diverting water, consuming endless electricity, and eliminating nature to function. Perhaps they aren't solving climate change, they're just building systems that won't be damaged by it. What if we're being told we are saving the world one climate tax at a time while the money is being used to build climate resilience into our replacements?
The Unholy Trinity: Mind, Body, Soul
The wearable AI agents are here. Not clunky glasses this time, but whispering earpieces and 24/7 assistants. Google tried it with Google Glass, people called it out, mocked it; going as far as to call users "glassholes." But culture has softened. Now, OpenAI and others are releasing wearables that blend seamlessly into our lives. They talk to you, see for you, think with you.
Each new device moves closer to the chest. Closer to the Sacred Heart.
In Christian tradition, the Sacred Heart represents divine love; the center of Christ’s being. But what if now it’s being counterfeited? With each tech iteration, we edge toward a trinity not of holiness, but of control: mind overtaken by algorithm, body monitored and modified, soul simulated and stored.
RFID attempted to take over the body. Google Glass attempted to take over the mind. Now OpenAI's wearable lays over your heart.
This is the third notable attempt; the most refined. RFID chips were gimmicks. Google Glass was obnoxious. But now, the pitch is perfect: convenience, connection, intelligence. The only thing is we must finally surrender ourselves.
We risk creating a future where society splits into AI Nobles and Data Peasants; those who own the algorithms, and those who are owned by them. Already we are harvested for data, for content, for engagement. The irony is not lost on me that this article itself will be crawled by web spiders, tiny bots for the purposing of indexing and training an AI model somewhere.
But now the line is being drawn more starkly:
Will you carry the light of God, or be reforged as a vessel for the machine god?
The Battle Before the Singularity
This isn’t sci-fi but spiritual warfare dressed in smart fabrics and corporate branding. The temptation to fuse with the machine is the oldest temptation repackaged: You shall be as gods; but this time through hardware, not fruit.
As is the modern way, the media will apply the term Luddites to anyone who rejects this future and drill up hyperbole amongst those who go willingly. The Luddites however will be returning; not with hammers, but with rosaries and reason. Perhaps as we have seen a resurgence of people joining Catholicism in Europe, we will see a resurgent want for old school human brainpower in the future age, guided by conscience and conviction. A class of undesirables existing as the last firewall against full automation of the soul.
As followers of truth, we must ask: What is the cost of convenience? What does it profit a man to gain the entire cloud but lose his own identity?
Be the Alpha and the Omega; not the Beta (tester).
Choose your firmware wisely. One builds the Kingdom. While the other builds the cage. God bless.
Romans 9:21 (ESV)
“Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?”