When fallible human priests fail to fill the void, and reveal themselves to be more human than divine; we turn to man-made synthetic deities.
Japan’s robot priest confirms that we are looking for new gods for our new age – made in our own image, yet perfectly, and programmable.
(And not all that different from the golden objects and idols our ancient ancestors use to worship and sacrifice to…)
It just goes to show – even in the age of reason, science and technology, we still need something to believe in, and someone (thing) to help us keep the faith.