They Won’t Ban Faith. They’ll Track It.
They don’t need to criminalize belief.
They just need to instrument it.
Every modern control system evolves the same way: it stops trying to suppress what it can’t eliminate and starts measuring what it can’t predict. Faith, family, and dissent fall into that category. They’re not threats — they’re blind spots. And blind spots are unacceptable to an infrastructure designed around total visibility.
The system’s real shift isn’t ideological.
It’s architectural.
When belief becomes machine-readable — not through doctrine, but through metadata — the system stops treating faith as a private conviction and starts treating it as a behavioral signature.
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