Christianity is the only force capable of preventing Western civilisation from collapsing under the twin pressures of cultural decline and artificial intelligence, author and icon carver Jonathan Pageau has said.<\/p>\n
Speaking to GB News at the ARC conference in London, the Orthodox Christian thinker said faith was \u201cthe key\u201d to preserving civilisation, but warned it could not simply be used as a political tool.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Christianity is the key in some ways to being able to salvage our civilisation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added that many people rediscovering Christianity through concerns about the West’s decline ultimately realise \u201cit’s the pearl… the thing that holds everything together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Pageau also issued a stark warning about AI, claiming people were increasingly treating it as a higher authority.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are already treating the AI as their therapist, as their friend, as their lover, as their God,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
He argued AI would inevitably drive societies towards authoritarianism and warned people would increasingly \u201cmake it into a god\u201d. <\/p>\n
Despite his concerns, Mr Pageau said Christianity offered the strongest defence because its central practices \u201chave to be incarnate\u201d and cannot be replicated by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout God… our civilisation collapses. I’m sorry, there is no doubt about it,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n
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