Comments on: Comic-Con 2009: Watchmen Director: "Technology Is Its Own Religion"

By: Sharon E. Dreyer

Sharon E. Dreyer — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:24:06 +0000

This is a great article! Thanks for sharing this thought-provoking debate. Technology is what it is, another tool invented by man to improve our lives. The egos of some men causes them to believe they are gods, but they are only great in their own minds. Technology isn’t bad of itself, it become bad if it is used for bad causes.

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Does Technology Turn Mortals Into God? - Science and Religion Today — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:53:19 +0000

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By: Brain of Gustav

Brain of Gustav — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:14:52 +0000

What a load of crap by Zack Snyder! The internet and social networking take us away from our humanity? On the contrary! Those thing bring people closer together. People who before would never have been able to communicate in any way, now can. Technology doesn’t stand in opposition to humanity, technology is the most human thing there is. Flint knives, agriculture, space travel, these are the things that define what it is to be humanity.

And what does religion have to do with anything? “Dr. Manhattan is an almost-god! Technology is a religion!” Mr. Snyder is indulging is quasi-philosophy, methinks. Soon he’ll wonder about quantum mechanics and it’s implications on the question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

I’m starting to loathe Zack Snyder. It’s blatantly obvious he knows nothing of either philosophy, science or technology. Or humanity, for that matter. If he did he wouldn’t say that technology remove us from our humanity and is done out of “spirituality” – whatever that’s supposed to mean.