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Elenor Rigby; Remember ; Father MacKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear.

But you see that is the point, not that anyone will hear the words of that sermon. What matters is Father MacKenzie and countless other pastors and priests around the world, sat there and went through their notes. The bible, the new testament in particular, what happened that week in the parish. Perhaps he wrote about the lonely Elenor Rigby giving her solace and hope for the future.

My point is simple, if we as people cede the most sacred task of any pastor/priest to a machine, then who are we any longer.

In the NPR segment a woman lutheran pastor was tired, she threw out a couple of ideas to the machine and in seconds CHATGPT came back with what she thought was an excellent sermon. She thought about the ethics, she didn’t use it but uses chatgpt for all of her ‘outlines’ now.

Why?

She has completely lost her humanity. It is not about being accurate, it is about being a messenger from god. She even had the audacity the complete idiocy of stating, god is working through chatgpt so she can do other things.

What other things? Oh tending to the sick? Or perhaps making a politically inspired take on why LGBTQ are bad as after all in the bible you can find dozens of references on that subject or adultery or anything you don’t like.

Why not let chatgpt your god now to many speak to you and you to your flock so you can flood them with anti human diatribes. After all you can say it was in the bible or chatgpt wouldn’t have said it was so.

You see CHATGPT has become for her the source of truth, there is no bible any longer, her god is CHATGPT. Can we accept this blasphemy and countenance it? Can you even trust the words that come from her robotic mouth?

I have pounded this subject over and over the past few days and will relent soon. However I want everyone who follows me and casual readers to stop the madness before it controls you.

Remember Father MacKenzie, alone, tired, cold in his unheated rectory pouring through the bible trying to find inspiration for his diminishing flock as numbers were going down even 50 years ago when elenor rigby was written by the most un CHATGPT songsters in history, the Beatles.

They did it the old fashioned way, they imagined father mackenzie and elenor finding their way in life. A life of loneliness which I suspect father mackenzie spoke about that sunday. it was deep, meaningful, it has stuck with me for over 50 years. Instantly when I heard the CHATGPT writing sermons I thought of Father MacKenzie writing a sermon that no one will hear. The utter humanity of his struggles, his commitment to his faith, to his god, it never left me. Will I feel the same when the computer tells me what is real, what is from god as it’s new ‘messenger’.

I THINK NOT!

Ask your pastor are you using chatgpt? If they are, tell them to stop. You want to hear from them, they are the messengers from god if you wish to believe, not chatgpt.

WE MUST BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE THE POWER TO CONTINUE TO THINK ON OUR OWN OR WE ARE NOTHING.

Let me end on a positive note. Years ago in Sydney, our ‘guest’ french priest was railing on that not enough were coming to mass and ‘where are all the people’.

To wit a loyal parishioner who always came with his children shouted out,

‘WE’RE HERE’.

We are here for as long as we do not let the machines control us and we let the Father MacKenzies make mistakes in their imperfect sermons, spoken from their imperfect mouths to our imperfect ears and into our imperfect lives. We are not striving for perfection, we are striving to be present with each other in our chosen faith. No machine can or should do that for us.

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