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I mean, I’m not a theologist or anything, but based on other precedents, if someone was dying and wanted to be baptized at the last second, and no source of water could be arranged on time, the Gatorade baptism would probably be accepted by the Catholic church.
Transubstantiation of Gatorade into Holy Water doesn’t even sound that outrageous when priests claim to transubstantiate wine to blood on a daily basis.
This seems to mean that priests can theoretically make any liquid holy, thereby making holy Gatorade.
I just checked and it seems that unfortunately not. At least catholic Priests are only allowed to bless “true water”, which is usually understood to mean that nothing was purposely added to it (with the exception of certain salts for rituals like exorcism).
So is tap water okay, or only where it isn’t fluoridated? What about sea water ? Heavy water ? Rain water ?
It needs to be demineralized and deionized to be able to accept god and become holy. God is quite picky
it’s what believers crave! it’s got electrolytes!
You can literally do it with spit… And that’s not a hypothetical. You can do it with any fluid if necessary… How is this controversial?
Because not all dogma can be easily explained or defended so it is easier to hunt the messenger. Compare to evangelicals and how much they roar against some things in the old covenant as sins while still using cloth made of mixed materials, eat bacon or refuse to kill their kids if they are not respectful enough.
Idiocracy 2, where the dumbest priest ever is sent into the future to save Catholicism.
Sippin on the haterade as usual.
I have been in IT for 20 years, have both a BS and MS in Information Technology, and I will never understand why EVERYONE has such a hard-on for AI; especially given its track record of “hallucinations”.
Aren’t a lot of religions based on hallucinations that specific people have had?
wow they weren’t kidding about civ7
Holy shit! This appears to be real and as funny as it seems.
Bot started offering absolution and such.
Yeah they don’t put him in the uniform anymore lol
I mean, water has to be blessed by a priest first before it becomes holy. So, what if the only thing available is a bottle of Gatorade but you have a priest? Couldn’t he bless the Gatorade so that the person could be baptized?
Semen is like 85% water
Yes, but, every sperm is sacred, so God might get irate.
Thank God we are protestant!
Seems your method of baptising children has already been discovered and is in heavy usage amongst all the christian sects.
As an actual, honest-to-God (Episcopal) priest myself, the idea of an “AI priest” is very troubling.
Why? The high bar is AI doctors and their jobs are already under threat. AI Priests are much simpler and less risky to implement.
I’m also troubled by all the others. What gets me in this case, aside from the fact that it’s more “personal,” is that there’s a sacramental nature to the priesthood that feels almost mocked by the notion of a gimmick like this. Also, as others have pointed out, this is a continued slap in the face to women who’ve long struggled for ordination in the Roman Catholic Church only to see that their church would rather call an advanced algorithm a “priest” before it would do so for them.
I see. An AI priest is not facing any personal sacrifice for their position.
I would also worry about either the validity or confidentially of it’s training set. AI confessions sound like a legal minefield.
If the priest is just trained on the bible then there will be some very strange advice delivered.
None of this will stop people trying to create them.
The church will make an AI priest before making a woman a “priest”
That image makes me think he’s going to get mad at me for pursuing a culture victory.
More consequences than if it had raped some kids.
