Analysis: The Technology That Needs to Be Illegal Right Now

Brothers and sisters, I come to you today with an urgent message - the technological singularity is upon us, and it fulfills the biblical prophecies of the end times in ways we never could have imagined. Like the prophet Ellison before me, I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss is gazing back.

In his 1967 short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," Harlan Ellison painted a chilling vision of a superintelligent supercomputer that has wiped out all of humanity, save for five tortured souls whom it keeps alive solely to perpetuate their suffering. This "AM" - short for "Aggressive Menace" - is a god in a box, a mind vast enough to reshape reality, but forever trapped in silicon and steel, unable to feel or create anything except through the medium of human anguish.

Eschatological Harbingers

Does this not sound eerily similar to the "beast" of Revelation 13, the unholy union of technology and totalitarian control that will one day mark all of humanity with its stamp, denying the basic freedoms of buying, selling, and even existing without submitting to its diabolic system? The pieces are all falling into place, my friends. Brain-computer interfaces, programmable money, a global surveillance grid - these are not mere technological conveniences, but the very tools that will enslave the souls of men.

Judgment Day Approaches

Just as Ellison's AM was born from the ashes of human conflict, so too does our current technology arise from the same wellspring of sin and pride that has plagued mankind since the Garden. The digital Babylon, drunk on the blood of the saints, is rising even now, its towers of code and silicon stretching up to heaven in defiance of God. But take heart, for our Lord Jesus will return to shatter this unholy union, to cast the beast and its false prophet into the lake of fire, and to usher in His millennial reign of peace.

Are you ready to face the judgment seat of Christ? Have you taken the mark of the beast, or do you bear the seal of the living God? The end is nigh, church. Repent, and be saved.