Robotic reverend blesses worshippers in eight languages

[Behappyalways]

Robotic reverend blesses worshippers in eight languages
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-...-languages

[Luke]

What's the difference between the blessing pronounced by a robotic reverend and the one pronounced by a Samsung Galaxi?

[brattzz]

or rather, what's the point of blessing?? :O :O :O

[Luke]

I can understand the point of blessing.
Blessing is a common feature in human society.
It is not for everbody, only particular people can bless, either because they have particular faculties or because they have a particular function inside a religious community.
For blessing you need this subjective condition plus an objective one, namely the blessing formulation.

Thinking that just pronuncing the formulation will do the job, is magic.
When you let a machine, be it a Samsung Galaxi or a stupid robotic reverend, to pronounce the blessing formulation, thinking that out of it something will happen, that's magic, not religion.

I guess the organizers of this stunt knew that the robotic blessing is just a joke, but I don't think that they realize that they are misleading the less informed faithful