Not sure how this relates, but I just read the novel “Lord of Light” where the human founders of a colony planet install themselves as gods and install “pray-o-matic” machines for the populace so they can exchange currency for good karma, which will influence whether they get reborn as a human (because they also created this technology).
How India’s spiritual tech startups are monetizing faith for the algorithm age
Submitted 5 days ago by overstep8556@jlai.lu to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/tech/662005/india-spiritual-apps
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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
The guy with the elefant head has a belly.
Etterra@discuss.online 5 days ago
Religion is a scam; misguided at best and a predatory at worst.