That transhumanism became a phenomenon is not surprising. They promise that “the singularity” is coming - the time when a crescendo of scientific advances will make the movement unstoppable and transhumanists will transform themselves into super-beings who can enjoy physical life without end. Transhumanist proselytizers include academics like Oxford’s Nick Bostrom, Big Tech gurus like Ray Kurzweil, and popularizers like 2016 presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan. The goal is to become “H+,” or more than human. Its adherents believe that immortality is attainable in the corporeal world through the wonders of applied technology. Transhumanism is a futuristic social movement. One cannot be a “Christian transhumanist” - any more than one can be a Christian Buddhist or Christian Muslim. The problem with these efforts is that the transhumanist worldview and the Christian faith are incompatible. The “Christian Transhumanist Association” (CTA), formed in 2014, is actively dedicated to promoting transhumanism as a means of “participating with God in the redemption, reconciliation, and renewal of the world.” The book Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics, published in 2019, claims to offer “first-hand testimony to the value of the transhumanist vision perceived by the religious mind.” The volume includes contributions from a number of Christians. But there has been a recent resurgence of interest in the project. So-called “Christian transhumanism,” or the attempt to blend the transhumanist agenda with the precepts of Christian theology, has been around for some time. There’s nothing surprising or spooky about that the technological manipulation of nature-human and otherwise-is quintessentially human.Photo credit: BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada, via Wikimedia Commons. If you think those texts just fanciful concoctions of the long dead, then the book serves as documentation of the ancient roots of man’s desire for complete techno-control of the stuff of life. “If you think texts like the Rig Veda and Popol Vuh are reliable guides to the goals and techniques of advanced lost civilizations, then Transhumanism offers a compelling slate of spooky coincidences. de Hart lifts the veil from the macabre transhumanistic monster being assembled and exposes the hidden history and agenda that has set humanity on a collision course for the Apocalypse. Transhumanism, a Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas by Dr.s’. This is no fairy tale, science fiction, or conspiracy theory … it simply is! His fraternities are well known and their secrets are well kept, but his goal of times past and present is the same he dares to become as god, genetically manipulating the seeds of the earth, the beasts on the fields, and to claim legal ownership over humanity by re-creating it in his own image. The modern Victor Frankenstein holds a high political office, carries diplomatic immunity, and is most likely funded by the largest corporations worldwide. This book investigates what may become of human civilization, who is setting the agenda for a trans-humanistic civilization, and why. Today we live in an age of such rapid advances in technology and science that the ultimate question must be rephrased: “ what shall we be ?” The ultimate question is no longer “who am I” or “why am I here.” These questions were answered in the earliest civilizations by philosophers and priests.
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