An app generates personalised prayers, dispenses blessings, and offers AI confession. Some users say it deepened their faith. Religious institutions call it a desecration.
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The split is between two views of ritual: one sees it as a means to a spiritual end โ if the means change but the end is reached, no harm done; the other sees the ritual itself as constitutive of the spiritual end, so a change in the means is a change in what is being achieved.
Why people split
Users who find the app useful often report it lowers the friction of practice โ they pray more, they reflect more, they feel closer. Religious institutions that condemn it tend to argue that the friction was the point: the slow, unaided work was the practice, and an app that does it for you delivers a hollow imitation of the outcome.
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