Religion by Computer

Computerized Christianity.  Push the right buttons, enter the right code, insert the correct data, and bingo, print out your own salvation.

You do your part and the Divine Computer does his.  No need to pray (after all, you control the keyboard).  No emotional attachment necessary (who wants to hug circuits?).  And worship?  Well, worship is a lab exercise—insert the rituals and see the results.

Religion by computer.  That’s what happens when…

You replace the living God with a cold system;

You replace inestimable love with pro-forma budget;

You replace the ultimate sacrifice of Christ with the puny achievements of man.

1 of 365 devotionals in Grace for the Moment, Volume II
Originally excerpted from

From And the Angels Were Silent