God is Not a Gimmick: What Happens When You Feed Jesus to a Machine

“The Bible doesn’t say anything. It says what we say it says.”

— Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin & George Floyd

I’ve been saying this for a while now: people have turned God into a gimmick. A brand. A tool of control. And now, thanks to technology, that truth is getting harder to ignore.

There’s a machine—Deus en Machina—designed by a Swedish researcher that lets you talk to Jesus. It’s a hologram, an AI-driven program that’s been fed nothing but the actual words of Jesus from scripture. No commentary. No theology. No denominational spin. Just Jesus, exactly as he spoke.

And already, I can see it coming—the shutdown, the backlash, the panic. Because when you take away the interpreters, when you strip Jesus down to just his words, something unsettling happens: the machine reveals the mirror.

When Jesus Has No Input But Himself

The reason Deus en Machina is so disruptive is because it removes the middleman. There’s no pastor, no professor, no theologian standing betwee…