Technology, understood as practical implementation of intelligence, is a matter of know-how expressing values. Thus technology must somehow relate to religion, positively, negatively, or neutrally, since religion is also supremely a matter of values and ideas. Values come first for both, though ideas—strongly valued ones—will always be importantly present in both domains as long as Homo sapiens is a thinking species.

Religions are differentiated by a conflicting plethora of symbols and beliefs, but are alike functionally in expressing worship. Worship is here understood as directed to what is taken to be of first importance (last to be sacrificed) and of widest relevance (impossible to be marginalized). Thus religion, in principle, is our most intense and comprehensive way of valuing. This is a highly abstract characterization of religion. Actual people, on this understanding, are more or less...