Following Christ in the Machine Age: A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth:

We “are all uprooted now,” Kingsnorth writes^[2]:

The rebellion against God manifested itself in a rebellion against creation, against all nature, human and wild. We would remake Earth, down to the last nanoparticle, to suit our desires, which we now called “needs.” Our new world would be globalized, uniform, interconnected, digitized, hyper-real, monitored, always-on. We were building a machine to replace God. …

Out in the world, the rebellion against God has become a rebellion against everything: roots, culture, community, families, biology itself. Machine progress — the triumph of the Nietzschean will—­dissolves the glue that once held us.^[3]

I’ve been reading Kingsnorth for a while – probably about a decade now.  He converted to Orthodox Christianity a few years ago.  It was a choice that I didn’t anticipate.  I read him now both because I’m interested in what he has to say and to better understand what led him to take the path that he has.