As we have often noted on this blog, we like it when Faithful Readers send in comments or questions we can answer and use as the raw material for a posting . . . especially when the FR does most of the work him- or herself. Today’s question-and-answer is from a Reader who is both Faithful and faithful (although not in our faith), whom we shall call “Rocky.” And what was her (or his, as the case may be) comment or question . . . or a bit of both? As Rocky (and maybe even Bullwinkle) said,
Faithful Readers, not Fearless Leaders
Just Third Way Blog — we have to find a way to dismantle this Davos World Economic Forum crowd. This is where the current administration in Washington as a wrecking ball is doing God’s work in my opinion [JTWB note: everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, but that doesn’t mean we necessarily agree with it; we advocate reform of institutions, not destruction] . . . read this from one of the insiders at WEF:
A senior World Economic Forum (WEF) insider has just openly declared that artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to dismantle religion and replace it with a new belief system engineered by global elites.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, senior WEF globalist adviser Yuval Noah Harari openly boasted that AI will soon control not just governments and economies but faith itself.
“AI will take over religion,” Harari told a room packed with global power brokers.
“This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, and Judaism,” he added.
Harari is not an outside critic sounding an alarm, however.
He is a senior adviser to the WEF, listed among its official leadership circle, speaking directly to the same global elites who openly argue that traditional religion, national identity, and individual freedom stand in the way of “managing” humanity.
"I've been found out!!"
During his remarks, Harari made
clear that any belief system rooted in words or scripture is now a target.
“Anything made of words will be taken over by AI,” he said.
“What happens to a religion of the book when the greatest expert on the holy book is an AI?”
Harari framed artificial intelligence not as a neutral tool, but as an autonomous agent, one that can learn, evolve, and act independently.
AI, he said, “can be a very creative agent.”
This is Satan speaking. And he has a high-ranking position. Good grief, are our so-called elites that stupid? Just getting this off my chest! Thanks.
And our response?
Dear Rocky,
You ask, “are our so-called elites that stupid?” No — just self-serving and consumed with a lust for power that blinds them to the true understanding of religion, especially the “thinking” religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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| Pope Gregory XVI |
This is a constant theme in our writing. We have harped on it so much that some in the Just Third Way are tired of hearing about it, and even dislike the term chosen to describe a significant part of it, which is admittedly lousy (we didn’t pick it; it’s been around for almost a century and a half): “modernism.”
In this context, “modernism” is an element of what Popes Gregory XVI and Leo XIII called rei novae. That translates as “New Things,” a term from ancient Rome signifying radical thoughts and actions threatening society, and which Cicero and Cincinnatus would have inveighed against.
Following the social, economic, religious, and political upheavals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these began manifesting in the early nineteenth century in what eventually became known as “socialism,” modernism, and esotericism or “New Age.”
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| Emmanuel Kant |
Consequently, the elites and their followers as well as far too many believers have fallen into the trap of thinking “religion” is something completely arbitrary and faith- (meaning “personal opinion”) based. “Religion” is therefore something the strongest force on anyone weaker than themselves and can only be overcome by “reason” . . . “reason” being defined here as the opinion of the strongest.
In short, elites tend to worship something they call “reason” (their opinion) and oppose something they call “faith” (someone else’s opinion). Some “Enlightenment” thinkers also thought this way, although not all, of course. This caused a reaction among believers, like the Protestant Emmanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason) and the Catholic Félicité de Lammenais (Theory of Certitude). As a result — figuring to be hung for a sheep instead of a lamb — many people began insisting “religion” is totally a matter of faith . . . and succeeded only in rooting true reason out of the religion of many people, Jew, Christian, Muslim, pagan, or whatever.
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| Thomas Aquinas |
Cutting to the chase, the Catholic Church’s real position on the respective roles of faith and reason — which is also found in orthodox/Aristotelian (not necessarily Orthodox) Judaism, Islam, and paganism — is stated in the first “Question” in Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, Canon 2.1 of the First Vatican Council, the first Article in the Oath Against Modernism (no longer required, unfortunately), and § 2 of the encyclical Humani Generis. (We don’t know enough about Judaism, Islam, or paganism to cite sources from those faiths).
The position of the Catholic Church (and many other faiths) is summed up in the Catholic “infallible teaching” that, absolutely speaking, knowledge of God’s existence and of the natural law written in the heart of every human being can be known by the force and light of human reason alone. This principle is so fundamental to ALL religion of any kind that the Catholic Church “anathematizes” (formally curses, vehemently condemns, or denounces anyone contradicting this role of reason as accursed and evil, and invokes excommunication, even divine punishment) the position that religion is based completely on a perverted idea of faith alone without a foundation in reason.
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| De Lamennais, "the First Modernist" |
Faith goes beyond reason; it does not contradict it. Many people accept the most important fact about religion as based on reason and is logically consistent and empirically evident: there is a God, and the natural law is the general code of human behavior. Going beyond that knowledge (as opposed to opinion) is where faith comes in — but it may never contradict what reason has determined. A Jew or Muslim will disagree with a Christian on, e.g., whether God consists of Three Persons in One God, but not that there is a God or the general norms of right and wrong.
The elites you implicitly cite worship AI. They think AI can replace God and religion because AI embodies what is ultimately an opinion-based consensus gleaned from the internet that they accept as “reason” . . . meaning it agrees with their opinion. They reject others’ “faith” because it does not agree with their opinion.
At the same time, many of the experts on which the elites rely do not even know what faith and reason really are. Reason must be empirically valid or logically consistent to be true, for truth means conformity with reality. This comes into direct conflict with what the elites and, sadly, many religious people want to believe. Consequently, both reject reason, the former implicitly, the latter explicitly.
We need to restore the role of reason in every aspect of society — domestic, civil, and religious — hence the need for Justice University and (of course) CESJ. THAT is how to “dismantle” the WEF crowd, and the specific means is the Economic Democracy Act which will break their monopoly of wealth and thus of power. Might will no longer make right.
Yours in justice,
JTWB (Just Third Way Blog)
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