Currently reading: Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism by George Marsden 📚

Here’s a quote that provides some insight into why a subset of silicon valley moguls are starting to sound like the elders in the fundamentalist church of my adolescence:

Fundamentalist thought is in fact, highly suited to one strand of contemporary culture–the technological strand. Unlike theoretical science or social science, where questions of the supernatural raise basic issues about the presuppositions of the enterprise, technological thinking does not wrestle with such theoretical principles. Truth is a matter of true and precise propositions that, when properly classified and organized, will work. Fundamentalism fits this mentality because it is a form of Christianity with no loose ends, ambiguities, or historical developments. Everything fits neatly into a system. It is revealing, for instance, that many of the leaders of the creation – science movement are an applied sciences or engineering. (p. 119)