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The Divine is said to be able to see everything be everywhere, understand everything, judge, punish, forgive and direct. The Divine, now incarnated through man, has become an aggregation of recording devices. The spark of the divine is now measured in access to this recorded memory, and its control and use the mark of the strength of the connection to Truth. The interpretation of text--of Truth in the Word--has acquired a rather anachronistic flavor, and the priests of the new God(s) splice and concoct Reality from the Truth of the recorded image--sound, action, backdrop and the like. Techno-morals now draw Truth from image, and construct image to its purveyors. What started as a small thing--posing Belgian prostitutes as nuns raped by the troops of the Kaiser for consumption by American audiences--has become the whole of a greater Truth. And recording Truth has spawned its own Satan--the Truth that is staged. If Truth is an eternal recording then is evil its illusion made real? Yet even eternal Truth as record can serve as illusion when appropriately spliced and torn from the great and complex fabric from which it occurs. If so, then the servants of this Truth, the tenders of techno-morality, also serve illusion.

Both the irony and reality of the new religion and its techno morality is most evident, not in the grand events of our time, but in those still small occurrences, that ripped from their larger context, serves the servants of Truth. Christian Bale Rant Caught on Tape, MTV.co.uk, February 3, 2009.

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