Virtual Pastor, a UK company, began pioneering the "virtual pastor model" in 2005, and has created a dozen lifelike, on-screen avatars which preach, joke and give personal anecdotes as if they were real people. All their sermons and personal stories are scavenged from the Internet.Read the whole news story here.
When a church subscribes to Virtual Pastor, each person in a congregation helps "shape" their pastor by entering likes and dislikes into a response box during services. This live feedback is fed into the company’s servers and helps to change the pastor’s sermon topics, hair style and more in following weeks. The result is a pastor perfectly tailored to the will of the congregation.
HT: Angie
6 comments:
Fear not, it is a joke. LarkNews should not be taking seriously. The only problem with LarkNews is that their 'news reports' are often almost believable, given the mess that contemporary evangelicalism is in.
Yeah, the reason it is believable is because evangelicals do such nutty things.
LarkNews is satire (sort of a Christian "Onion")--but, as Alastair says, the humor hits awfully close to reality sometimes.
Here is another Lark story I found amusing.
What's the problem? A perfectly-tailored pastor...sounds good to me!
Lori: That's because you've already got one.
I'm not just laughing, I'm guffawing!! ;)
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