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'Robot priest grants auto-blessings in same town that Luther launched Protestant Reformation
Daily Mail ^ | May 29, 2017 | mailonline reporter

Posted on 05/30/2017 7:17:10 PM PDT by ebb tide

'Rust in peace': Robot priest grants auto-blessings in the same German town that Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago

A robot priest that beams lights from its hands is giving 'auto-blessings' in the same German city where Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation.

Five hundred years after Luther published the 95 Theses in the town of Wittenberg, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, an evangelical church unveiled an automatic blessing robot for the special celebrations.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Current Events
KEYWORDS: luther

1 posted on 05/30/2017 7:17:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide; beaversmom; GraceG

So, do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?


2 posted on 05/30/2017 7:19:58 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Proud Keeper of the Sarah Palin and New First Lady Melania Ping Lists. Let me know if you want on.)
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To: ebb tide

Think it will attack little boys?


3 posted on 05/30/2017 7:29:34 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: ebb tide

Do they have the little thx1138 cubicles?

No one has any reason to wonder why Jesus is coming back to stop all this garbage.


4 posted on 05/30/2017 7:29:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ebb tide

An evangelical church did this... pathetic. And fitting that it has this connection to Luther.


5 posted on 05/30/2017 7:40:08 PM PDT by Melian (Some folks are born with disabilities; others pursue them.)
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To: ebb tide

Yes. An evangelical “priest” and a robot, at that.


6 posted on 05/30/2017 8:26:59 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: ebb tide

"The coin into the coffer clings, a soul from purgatory heavenward springs!"

7 posted on 05/30/2017 8:41:35 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (My wish list: https, failover server, six sigma uptime.)
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To: ebb tide

Brings to mind Robert Duvall in the automated confessional scene in THX 1138

https://youtube.com/watch?v=U0YkPnwoYyE


8 posted on 05/30/2017 8:44:47 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: ebb tide
Any relation to Rev. Lionel Preacherbot?


9 posted on 05/30/2017 9:10:31 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: Melian

Hey, let’s leave Luther out of this, please. you can probably blame the secularism plaguing modern Europe, and liberalism infesting the churches.


10 posted on 05/30/2017 9:11:16 PM PDT by Jacob Kell (A New Day has Dawned, let's Make America Great Again!)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Bot Ping!


11 posted on 05/30/2017 9:11:45 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: ebb tide
"Yes, I understand....very good....proceed."

"You are a true believer. Blessings of the state. Blessings of the masses. Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man..."

12 posted on 05/30/2017 9:53:58 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Melian; ebb tide

“The robot on show is called ‘BlessU-2’ and was developed by the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau.”

I’ve brought this up before here, but when referring to Germany at least, “evangelical” has a very different meaning from what it does in the United States. After World War II, Germany’s Protestant churches essentially were merged into the “Evangelical Church of Germany” (EKD). These aren’t Bible-believing churches. They’re most like the mainline Protestant churches here.

Despite including different denominations (like Lutheran and Reformed), the individual EKD churches don’t compete with each other. They each have their territory and a Lutheran church won’t move in on a Reformed, for example, or vice versa, and the churches share full altar and pulpit fellowship. Children in these churches are taught social liberalism and the social Gospel. That’s it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany


13 posted on 05/31/2017 5:48:55 AM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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To: Jacob Kell; ebb tide

See this post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3556645/posts?page=13#13

The Evangelical Church in Germany is like mainline Protestant here.

What’s more, all the building of grand churches in Europe through the centuries, certainly led by the Catholic Church, is something that turns many people away from Christianity there (and here, too, even). The buildings take on supreme importance, and they are needy masters requiring expensive upkeep. People know, though, that investing so much in buildings isn’t at all what Biblical Christianity is about. The Christian churches that invested so much in buildings are pretty much all that’s been left in Europe for hundreds of years.


14 posted on 05/31/2017 6:03:11 AM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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