(May 30, 2017 at 8:57 pm)Lutrinae Wrote:Quote:“We wanted people to consider if it is possible to be blessed by a machine, or if a human being is needed,” Stephan Krebs of the Protestant church in Hesse and Nassau, which is behind the initiative, told the Guardian.
I imagine the church and theists stating that it is impossible, considering that the robot does not have a soul with which it can use to properly be in contact with god.
Nor is it a son of Adam. God would be unaware of any intercessory applications to which it might pretend.
Satan, on the other hand . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
