Christopher Benek

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  • Pokémon GO Proves Congress Needs to Establish Augmented Reality Property Rights

    Pokémon GO Proves Congress Needs to Establish Augmented Reality Property Rights

    With the massive success of mobile game Pokémon GO there is no question that augmented reality is here to stay. Newzoo recently reported that, months after its launch, over 700,000 people a day are still downloading the game.

  • Christians Should Stop Belittling Donald Trump

    Christians Should Stop Belittling Donald Trump

    But when we lose compassion for other human beings, when we stop being intentional about going after the lost, we are sacrificing individual and collective pieces of our humanity and we are exchanging them for evil.

  • What If Everything We Call 'Natural' Is Actually 'Technological'?

    What If Everything We Call 'Natural' Is Actually 'Technological'?

    Christianity is desperately in need of an updated technological hermeneutic. Proof of this assertion arises in the fact that a lot of the anti-religion tech crowd believes that emerging technology will be the end of Christianity.

  • Aliens Play a Part in God's Plan for Us

    Aliens Play a Part in God's Plan for Us

    Most Christians I know believe in extraterrestrial aliens. The accounts of such beings in our sacred texts are frequent and have been recorded my numerous sources. What most people fail to consider is how aliens will play a role in our coming eschatological future.

  • How Gene Editing Will Modify the Christian Concept of Spiritual Gifts

    How Gene Editing Will Modify the Christian Concept of Spiritual Gifts

    Following the recent historic International Summit on Human Gene Editing, held in Washington DC, it has become clear that humanity is on the verge of experiencing a radical technological transformation that will challenge our preconceptions as to what it means to be human.

  • Why Christians Should Support Scientists and Technologists

    Why Christians Should Support Scientists and Technologists

    It is often articulated in society that Christianity and science/technology are at odds. While most people of faith do not hold this belief, it is imperative that the church universal continue to dispute this negative stereotype.

  • Churches Should Prepare for When Robots Take People's Jobs

    Churches Should Prepare for When Robots Take People's Jobs

    In the next 20 years intelligent machines will eliminate a large percentage of human jobs.

  • Artificial Intelligence Will One Day Lead People to New Levels of Holiness

    Artificial Intelligence Will One Day Lead People to New Levels of Holiness

    There is a great debate happening around the world regarding the future of Artificial Intelligence. Some people believe that AI will bring forth the end of humanity. Others fear that robots simply won't have humanity's best interest in mind.

  • Technology Will Expose the Sin in Our Hearts

    Technology Will Expose the Sin in Our Hearts

    As technology continues to increasingly develop it exposes human intention while eliminating our privacy. The result of this accelerating trend is that the confidentiality that we currently maintain as persons will continue to erode. As such, we should begin to prepare ourselves for the biggest reveal of all: The day when technology exposes the thoughts of our mind.

  • You Cannot Serve Both God and Internet Trolling

    You Cannot Serve Both God and Internet Trolling

    The intentional introduction of inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic posts with the deliberate intent of disrupting regular on-topic group discussion — commonly known as Internet trolling — has become a favorite pastime of many Christians in the world today.