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Vampires and the Blood of Christ, Robots and the Undead, Demons and Telepathy (Weird Questions!)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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What Is the Church's Social Teaching?

Christie: The word scinth or synthesoid is ambiguous. It could refer either to a synthetic, non living being, like a robot, or it could refer to a synthetic living being. And anything that's alive has a soul. If you're in an environment where there are an appreciable number of robots mixed in with the humans, and you can't tell which or which, then the church, or at least catholic moral theology,. would require you to treat anything that you think may be human as if it's a human on the principle of precaution. Christie: This is not a desirable situation because humans have rights that androids don't, intrinsically, as a

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