Holy Ghost in the Cloud (review article about christian transhumanism)

Gordon Seidoh Worley

Will the machine deity require you to accept Christ as your savior before letting you become a transhuman? No? Then why the hell is that written in the bronze age book that you claim knowingly predicted this outcome?

The classic idea of heaven looks like a post-scarcity, post-death society because that's what we've always imagined would be nice. It's not divine prophecy, just something common to humanity, and we've done a lot of ignoring religious "answers" to get there. I resent that religious people would try to co-opt all this work and at this late date contemplate the idea of a digital entity with a "soul."

This is a good point. It's hardly surprising that the utopia we fantasise about is the same as the one we try to create.

4Gordon Seidoh Worley9y

At the risk of being rude, this sounds more like your problems than theirs. I'm not sure religious transhumanists are even that late to the party: we happen to be part of a community that got there very early and has been slowly prepping the party so it'll be ready when folks arrive. Maybe religious folks want to dance to different music than we do and you might find that annoying, but is that better than no one showing up to the party at all? And if we don't like it we can always go hang out in a room upstairs for a while without leaving, because the music will eventually change. It always does.

0g_pepper9y

The New Testament is not really a bronze age book. Wikipedia states that the bronze age ended in the near east region around 1200 BC.