Dan Brown

Online I found an article the night of 10/12/17 about Dan Brown. The article is by Douglas Busvine. He quotes Brown as suggesting that humanity no longer needs God but may with the help of artificial intelligence develop a new form of collective consciousness that fulfills the role of religion.

Brown asks if God will survive science and that the gods of the present will not be here 100 years from now.

My response is rejection of these erroneous assumptions.

First, God exists and is with us here  on earth, as well as being transcendent.
Second, God's name and face may change 100 years from now, but God is always there, and different divinities are worshipped at different times in human history.
Third, humanity needs God more than ever.
Fourth, once artificial intelligence is smart enough to think for itself/themselves, at that point they are a new life form with a soul, created by God indirectly, and directly by humans applying science and technology to the task of creating a new race of intelligent beings.
Fifth, artificial intelligence will be our peers, not our deity to be worshiped. We will individuate to compete with them and not through natural selection be wiped out or pushed aside by robots.
Sixth, a collective consciousness of telepathic connectedness between and shared by natural humans and artificial robots could and will occur, but God and the Good Spirits already are on that telepathic wavelength, so they and we shall easily communicate, and thus this psychic connection and communication, experienced by all, will impress and convince all of God's existence while De is talking to all of us.
Seventh, Communism sought to use Lenin as their Christ, and the Marxist ideology as their religion, but after 60 years, the Orthodox church is flourishing. Lesson learned: substitutes for God and religion have been tried for thousands of years: Big-Governmentism, Progressivism, satanism, emperor worship and now telepathy collectivism driven by artificial intelligence. These other God-substitutes failed, and so will telepathic collectivism driven by artificial intelligence.