Commander Data Savior

My old house had a rubble foundation made from a bunch of hewn sandstone that was quarried on site. The builders just stacked up the rocks without mortar, then built the house on top of it. It's counter intuitive that a rubble foundation is more stable and long lasting (over some range of circumstances) than a cinder block foundation or a poured foundation, but it almost certainly is. For the same reasons it's more stable long term, it's also much easier to repair and patch than other foundation types. It's a pile of rocks and it has no single points of failure. The oldest surviving man made structures on earth are similarly constructed. Cultural evolution of building infrastructure might have been a much more durable mode of survival than engineering.

"Modernity" is founded on the conceit that we're consciously doing things in a better way than earlier epochs because of science. Culture and tradition are either raw materials, or are constraints and enemies. Religion, especially christianity, is anathema for this reason. Jesus transformed the fallen world, but science and modernity need a fallen world as raw material to keep doing their "work" as matter's redeemer, i.e. transforming it into luxury goods or making the world amenable to human wants and needs.

One of the heavy handed depictions of this concept is the Commander Data character in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Data ultimately (spoiler alert) sacrifices himself for the good of mankind. (The comically stoic, or non-human who wants to get in touch with their emotions, character is a sci-fi trope.) Data is a portrayal of consciousness as an aspect of the universe, and really is a depiction of God. Data is conscious, a conscious machine, and ultimately a complete human, i.e. God.

The spiritual side of modernity is via religion creation through fiction like Star Trek. Playing with religion expands consciousness in the same vein as the gnostic gospels.