Posted on 09/23/2019 6:37:27 PM PDT by marshmallow
That’s drag?
Oh, please. That would never happen.
I’m not Catholic, but in the ordination of a Catholic priest, isn’t it believed he receives the Holy Spirit, and that empowers him to administer the sacraments?
How does a machine receive the Holy Spirit?
You see, this idea of robot priests is the kind of useless stuff that comes from people with too much time on their hands and who fill the gaps by speculating on nonsense. Did this august professor of theology ever consider teaching the theology of the church? Maybe. But she wouldn’t get her name in the news that way.
This heresy isn’t because of the idle speculation of.a scholar. It arises from a profoundly distorted understanding of the priesthood and of the nature of Christ Himself.
Why not? The Church as already decided a priest no longer needs a soul - or conscience - or belief - any robot will do just as well. (snark)!
I think I know where you are coming from there, but if they fixed the doctrinal issues, there is still the question of whether a machine would be a proper spiritual leader? I’d say in the same way as one of those sex robots is a proper sexual partner.
Somebody got two degrees and a job the new fashioned way. Lay off the acid lady.
“ordination of a priest, isn’t it believed he receives the Holy Spirit”...
I wonder how many people believe the old “indelible mark on the soul?”
How many priests and bishops believe it themselves?
They modernized convents and the real nuns fled.
Artificial Intelligence is slated to replace mankind - at least in the minds of progressives. So this anti-human theology fits right in with the progressive academic pedo enablers of the new world order. Too bad this woman has no common sense, no children of her own to sacrifice to moloch.
Based on a few of the homilies I’ve heard, I thought they’d been doing that for years.
Can we start by having AI replace Democrats? That would be an improvement.
You would think they would believe something. It reminds me of what Flannery O’Connor, a Catholic, said when someone claimed to believe that the Eucharist was not the body and blood of Christ, but a symbol: “If it’s just a symbol, then to hell with it.” I think her point was, how is there grace in the Eucharist if it is only a symbol?
All Christians have a concept of the “means of grace,” the ways God has given us to experience his love, mercy, and guidance. Catholics and Orthodox focus on the sacraments, while most Protestants would not. All would probably say there is grace in the preaching of the Word, in prayer, in scriptural study, even in good works. Grace is in those special works in which God’s existence and ours cross.
Grace changes us. You don’t have to define it as an “indelible mark on the soul,” to admit that grace changes us in fundamental ways. If it doesn’t, then what’s the point of talking about it? Is it just a comforting idea?
Can there be grace in ordination? I don’t see how there couldn’t be. We talk of callings and vocations. Who is doing the calling? Who is giving the vocation? Who leads and inspires a faithful priest or pastor?
Getting back to the original topic. To say that a robot can be just as good a priest as a human denies the reality of grace right down the line. It also denies the special dignity of humans among God’s creatures. Among all of the other creatures, God created us alone in His image. How can you program a machine to experience something that is fundamentally human — knowing and living in the grace of God? You can’t. If the church ever come to the point of claiming it can do that, then I’ll probably say to hell with it.
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