Religion
Christians bow down at the altar of AI
Artificial intelligence is becoming a competing source of theology.
The power of naming
The authority we once gave to churches and priests is now wielded by databases and algorithms.
Of God and global warming: The future of faith and atheism
Our species hasn’t put in the work needed for religion to fade away.
Ross Douthat wants you to believe in God
The orderly universe is not the pro-God argument Douthat thinks it is.
Lessons for a future atheist president from Jimmy Carter’s funeral
A secular civilization, like any civilization, will need a story about a beneficent universe and a hopeful future.
Why there won’t be a religious revival
No religion alive today is fit for a future revival.
The problem with eternity
Thinking 500 or 10,000 or a million years in the future is hard enough. Yet some people toss around eternity as if they understand it.
What can future secularists learn from the Jewish High Holy Days?
The coming secular civilization will have regional variations borrowing concepts and even rituals from local religions.
It may be time to accept that we're living in a simulation
New religion incoming.
Could the rise of the nonreligious defuse the population bomb?
The UN estimate of Earth’s human population has flown past eight billion. Can less religion slow the explosion?
The saved and the damned of Proxima Centauri B
How might Christianity work intelligent alien life into their worldview? Did everyone get a Jesus?
AI: The newest squirrel distracting evangelicals from their own decline
Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline.