The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race w/ Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Tech Won't Save Us
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The History of Imperial Christianity
The God language has always been when it comes to this kind of imperialism a means of making people feel better about the conquest that they are about to undertake. So I recognize fully that our listeners here might be like come on God has nothing to do with this. This is a totally secular space industry. But all of these attempts to conquer space and to take its resources and use them are relying on what seem to be very secular ideas which have particularly religious inheritance. The church's role has become more diffuse as we move from the Roman Catholic endorsement of the doctrine of discovery of the Americas to a more sort of Protestantized idea of like just God having a hand in manifest destiny.
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