Specifically evangelical Christians. It’s a very tricky thing to navigate because on the one hand we are taught absolute biblical inerrancy, but it’s crucial to redefine a lot of Christ’s message that gets leveraged by people with actual humanity, because a lot of it can be made to sound, well, awfully socialist.
So I think there is a deliberate, if not coordinated and conspiratorial, effort to thread that needle. AI is also a really potent vector for this. Evangelical Christians are simultaneously 3 things:
- Completely devoted to scripture as the perfect and inerrant word of god
- largely unfamiliar with scripture itself - the bible is perfect but it’s more of a cookbook than a manual, much less a library.
- Weirdly open to God speaking and working in all kinds of ineffable ways, even if the resulting doctrines contradict the scripture they aren’t familiar with anyway - such as God “clarifying misinterpretation“ through AI, or through the ramblings of someone with a traumatic brain injury.
Here is the trick - I remember understanding the rhetorical genius of it when I first heard it, even before I deconstructed:
God’s word is inerrant - our understanding of it is not.
It might sound tinfoil hatted, but I think this is a lever actively being pulled by the Epstein class.