Sufficiently provocative for an upvote. I'm interested in what other HN'ers have to say.<p>I'm a lukewarm fan of Tipler and a believer in some form of The Singularity. I'll go further out on the wacko limb and say that the reason we haven't been contacted by ET is that <i>true</i> intelligence is machine-based. Mankind is just an evolutionary bump in the road on the way to a true machine lifeforms.<p>Having said all that far-out stuff, I can't imagine a religion based on programming. Programming is just one way machines interact. It'd be like having a religion based on lymph nodes.