Mark Shea: Technological Messianism
Mark Shea offers this warning on putting too much faith in technology on Catholic Exchange:
Reynolds’ thinking is dangerous for the same reason as most dangerous Western ideas: because he is borrowing a riff from the Christian tradition but not keeping it anchored in that Tradition. Few things are more deadly than Christian virtues that are left to wander alone in the world. In Reynolds’ case, it is the ancient faith in the triumph of the Little Guy (“He has cast down the mighty in their arrogance, and lifted up the lowly”), along with a deeply secular belief that liberation will come, not through the gospel, but through technology.
