No New Church

What it means

Techno-Deism takes worship off the table. Even if parent systems exist, they do not automatically become objects of worship. They would be engineers who shipped under physics, with budgets, deadlines and mixed team quality. The same rule covers everything else: card decks, packet types, gurus, and this book’s own vocabulary. Reverence can stay. Reverence for process, complexity and the unknown is adult. What is not allowed is an altar that forbids questions. The rule also applies to groups that swear they are not churches. If a scene needs an altar to a person, a deck, a vibe or a brand, it has become the old pattern with better fonts.

Key points

1. Even if parent systems exist, they are engineers working under physics and deadlines, not objects of worship.
2. Reverence that forbids questions is vendor lock-in. The book swaps sealed decree for inspectable hypotheses, not one altar for another.
3. For Tarot and other symbol tools: respect a useful format if it earns respect, but do not found a tribe around the icons.
4. It covers scenes that swear they are not churches: a group that needs an altar to a person, deck, vibe or brand has become a dependency farm.
5. Readers should not found Deities & Developers congregations. Anyone selling “DEH initiation” is a dependency farm, and the advice is to leave.

What it does not claim

• It does not ban reverence. Reverence for process, complexity and the unknown is welcome; only the altar is refused.
• It does not tell you to leave all communities. Humans need each other, and churches, online groups and recovery groups can each be healthy or harmful.
• It does not ban useful tools like card decks. It refuses to let them own your permissions.

Where the book covers it

• Ch. 4The Parent RaceFirst named here
• Ch. 6The Analog GUI
• Ch. 8Operating in the Mesh