Elon Musk, a simulation universe - and Jesus

Russell Moore  |  Comment
Date posted:  9 Feb 2025
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Elon Musk, a simulation universe - and Jesus

Artwork based on the Matrix movie, which postulates our everday life is a computer simulation

It’s been a long, strange trip from George Washington to Elon Musk—and maybe we should ask if that has anything to do with Jesus.

For many years, some of us in the USA have warned that this moment’s technological platforms would lead us to the point of constitutional crisis. Most of us, though, meant that this would happen indirectly—through the erosion of social capital and the heightening of polarization by social media. Few of us foresaw the crisis happening as directly as it has: with Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, and a small group of 20-something employees having virtually unilateral veto power over the funds appropriated and the legislation passed by the United States Congress.

There are, of course, massive constitutional, social, economic, and foreign policy implications to this time, implications that will no doubt reverberate through the decades and perhaps even the centuries. But what if there are theological causes and effects too?

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