{"id":228454,"date":"2026-01-06T22:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/when-the-dead-built-gods-the-mechanical-messiah-and-humanitys-ancient-obsession-with-creating-life"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:03:49","slug":"when-the-dead-built-gods-the-mechanical-messiah-and-humanitys-ancient-obsession-with-creating-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/when-the-dead-built-gods-the-mechanical-messiah-and-humanitys-ancient-obsession-with-creating-life","title":{"rendered":"When the Dead Built Gods: The Mechanical Messiah and Humanity\u2019s Ancient Obsession with Creating Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-the-dead-built-gods-the-mechanical-messiah-and-humanitys-ancient-obsession-with-creating-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may not be long before Artificial Intelligence creates access to God via modern technology, however during the 19th century, a spiritualist by the name of John Murray Spear was inspired to build a Mechanical Messiah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be long before Artificial Intelligence creates access to God via modern technology, however during the 19th century, a spiritualist by the name of John Murray Spear was inspired to build a Mechanical Messiah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}