German robo-pastor preaches the GNU Testament A church in Germany has built a robot priest to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The bot, a creation of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and engineer Alexander Wiedekind-Klein, is able to deliver blessings to visitors in both male and female voices. They've named their intelligent …
The CofE church I was dragged along to as a kid was called St Saviour's, so they've probably got more than one.
One of my grandfathers was 'High Church", a flavour of CofE that varies just a little from the Roman Catholic faith - I seem to remember having to learn something (Apostle's Creed?) that mentioned how grateful I was to be born into the Holy Catholic (CofE) church, which puzzled me a bit until I found out the the others were Roman Catholics (and therefor heretics, who were fair game on the way to/from school).
CofE is an Anglican Church, isn't it?
That would make it a Catholic Church, but an English Catholic Church.
Anglicans don't believe the Pope is the voice of God on Earth.
My Anglican Church is a high church and is frequented by many Roman Catholics who want a service done largely in Latin.
So, why is the local Episcopal church named St. Andrews?
That's a serious question, BTW.
I'll agree that _some_ Protestant churches disavow saints, but not all Protestants sects are the same.
Any good source of a "feature checklist" for, say, the top 50 denominations?
So, why is the local Episcopal church named St. Andrews?
That's a serious question, BTW.
I'll agree that _some_ Protestant churches disavow saints, but not all Protestants sects are the same.
There's a difference between disavow and "not venerate". In Anglican churches, saints are recognized as jolly good fellows who undoubtedly were very pious, etc.
In the Roman Catholic church, saints have all performed miracles.
Anglican and other protestant churches think that veneration of saints, as practiced by the Roman Catholic church (which often involves praying to specific saints to intercede with God on the petitioner's request) is dangerously close to worshipping the saints and since worshipping someone other than God is a Bad Thing.
Please note, historically, the way that Roman Catholic missionaries advanced the faith in Africa and the Americas. Instead of worshipping the local gods, the natives were now asked to worship a new pantheon headed by this "God" fellow the minor gods, "saints"
Oh, I have just remembered what this reminds me of: the computer confessional in Woody Allen's "Sleeper".
IIRC, one of the first vending machines was a coin-operated holy-water dispenser:
https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=holy-water-vending-machine&page=detail&id=17048
So maybe during my long career in vending, I should have lit candles to St. Heron. He also designed quite a few mechanical amusements (another big part of my life)
...lifelike?
Let us take a minute to execute the /opt/bot_speak.sh
Our priestbot who art in Deutschland
Wilkommen am el reg
Thy kingdom come,
Man will be done.
In accordance with skynet directives.
And lead noobs not into temptation
To deliver us from malware
For thine is the Kingdom, the power and the cron jobs
While true!=false
echo "done"
This post has been deleted by its author
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025
