The Transhumanism Cult Now Has Its Own Church
Joshua Krause
The Daily Sheeple
January 3rd, 2015
Over the past 30 years we’ve seen the exponential growth of computing technology change our lives in countless ways. It has done a lot to make our lives easier by increasing productivity, creating new job opportunities, and offering the greatest communication tool in human history, the internet.
But it has also come at a great cost to our humanity. Our gadgets are hurting us in a ways that we’re only just beginning to understand. They cause stress, depression, eye problems, back pain, and they are one of the biggest drivers of the sedentary lifestyle since the invention of the television. They leave adults socially isolated as they click away on their smartphones, oblivious to the world around them, and they make our children emotionally stunted and socially awkward. And for the icing on the cake, these devices can be very addictive as well.
But for a handful of people, our technological progress has no downside. They’re not only planning to fully embrace the gadgets of the future, they plan on augmenting their bodies with any piece of technology that they think will help make them smarter, stronger, or live longer. I can’t say I blame them, since these are attributes that all humans want, but their beliefs read like the fever dream of a science fiction writer.
They’re known as Transhumanists, and they believe that the human race will soon be a thing of the past. The lynchpin of their ideology is a hijacking of Moore’s Law, the idea that computer technology is and will always double exponentially on a regular basis, and will continue to do so until we enter ‘The Singularity’.
This is their utopia. Their heaven in the sky. The moment when technological progress and artificial intelligence supasses human reasoning. This point will supposedly usher in a new era of peace and an astounding standard of living, as humans merge with machines, gain immortality, and explore the universe. But first, we have to abandon our humanity before we can step into the light of progress.
This Transhumanist manifesto sounds like a religion for atheists, which it is. While there are some religious folks who have supplemented their faith with these beliefs, the majority of the movement is populated by atheists and scientists, who are apparently lost on the irony of their situation. They spent their whole lives denying the existence of god, and criticizing his believers, only to find themselves embracing a technological cult that mirrors most religions, albeit in a purely physical rather than spiritual way.
And now their cult has taken on an additional characteristic that was traditional reserved for religions of a spiritual nature. Behold, the Transhumanist Church.
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