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This episode explores the cultural implications of belief in aliens and AI as potential spiritual deceptions.

Is our obsession with aliens and AI preparing us for a spiritual deception? In this electrifying episode of Catholic in America, Jason Adkins interviews philosopher, theologian, and author Daniel O’Connor, who argues that belief in extraterrestrials and superintelligent AI may be part of a growing cultural movement away from Christ — and toward idolatry and deception. Drawing on theology, Church history, science, and pop culture, O’Connor proposes that the so-called “First and Last Deception”...

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Host: Jason Adkins

Guest: Daniel O’Connor

Topics covered

• aliens
• AI
• spiritual deception
• idolatry
• theology
• Church history
• pop culture

Keywords

• aliens
• AI
• spiritual deception
• idolatry
• theology
• Church history
• pop culture

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