Another reason I am glad to be Catholic

While the dust over beaming preachers on a video screen on multi-site campuses has somewhat settled, the new 3D tool is raising more questions and concerns among some believers.

“Since so many of us in the west are convinced that entertaining pew fodder is critical to advancing ‘the gospel’ and that only a very few have the necessary gifts to preachertain – this will become the ‘perfect’ solution,” Bill Kinnon, author of A Networked Conspiracy, Social Networks, The Church & the Power of Collective Intelligence, wrote in a recent blog post.

What has Kinnon and many other Christians talking is the holographic technology that music artist Madonna famously used at the Grammy Awards in 2006 and that one company wants to promote in churches…

According to Morgan, pricing on the holographic technology is “coming down quickly to the point that I won’t be surprised if we see this technology implemented in churches within the next 12 months.”

While the dust over beaming preachers on a video screen on multi-site campuses has somewhat settled, the new 3D tool is raising more questions and concerns among some believers.
“Since so many of us in the west are convinced that entertaining pew fodder is critical to advancing ‘the gospel’ and that only a very few have the necessary gifts to preachertain – this will become the ‘perfect’ solution,” Bill Kinnon, author of A Networked Conspiracy, Social Networks, The Church & the Power of Collective Intelligence, wrote in a recent blog post.
What has Kinnon and many other Christians talking is the holographic technology that music artist Madonna famously used at the Grammy Awards in 2006 and that one company wants to promote in churches…
According to Morgan, pricing on the holographic technology is “coming down quickly to the point that I won’t be surprised if we see this technology implemented in churches within the next 12 months.” Via Sancte Pater

Well in Protestant theology, which is largely non-Sacramental, nothing prevents this. When the service is primarily a sermon and secondarily fellowship nothing requires a pastor to be present. There is a large range of talents when it comes to preaching — so why not have the best of the best via hologram instead of maybe the lesser talent of your local church?

Sacraments are personal and require a physical presence, though a blessing is a different thing. Thankfully we will never see this:

Besides that R2D2 Hologram technology is spotty at best – probably supplied by AT&T.

Though as Jimmy Akin points out today in an unrelated post what most people think of holograms are really volumetric displays.