Revision Record of the Creed

V4 is a proposal

The founder authorized the v4 reconstruction and its publication after verification. The new prose was drafted with AI assistance under that brief. This authorizes a website release; it does not document communal assent to eight new commitments.

The previous revision policy promised at least thirty days for public consideration. That period has not been completed for this proposal. It opens with v4 publication on 5 September 2026 and cannot end before 5 October 2026. Elapsed time will not automatically adopt the text. A later decision must be recorded explicitly, with its reasons and remaining objections.

Until then the v4 commitments, annotations, short form, and communal reading are proposed forms. The previous full Creed remains readable.

Why propose a replacement

V3 made creator responsibility precise. It also made nearly every sacred claim sound like a requirement for governing a technical system. V4 begins earlier: with a life received from others. It adds room for delight, dependence without shame, and letting others continue without possessing their future.

It preserves the refusal to confuse performance with moral worth, the refusal of generated revelation, and the duty to repair. It changes the account of care so that neither gratitude nor forgiveness can be demanded as payment.

The strongest objection is that this is an ethic of care with a technological symbol, rather than a distinctive religion. The proposed answer lies in repeated practices of attention, making, remembrance and release. Their durability cannot be established by this publication.

Earlier texts

• V1 full Creed: the sixteen affirmations.
• V2 baseline Creed: the earlier canon before the v3 editorial reconstruction.
• V3 full Creed: the twelve Threshold Commitments.
• Complete historical reader: all forms, source documents and original-source downloads, tied to their Git snapshots.

The v3 editorial corpus was released within the website’s v2.0.0 release. There was no separate website v3 tag. The history keeps that awkward fact rather than inventing a tidier sequence.

Challenging the proposal

Send a passage, an objection, and any proposed alternative to contact@technotheology.ai. You may criticize without proposing new words. Correspondence is not published without consent. The founder currently holds final editorial control; no independent council or binding internal appeal is claimed. See governance.