This isn’t about religion, though it was inspired by coming across an article by someone whose motivations for writing about the “sinful” nature of transhumanism seem to be rooted at least nominally in religious convictions. I say “nominally” because the attitudinal undercurrent that drives people to make statements about the sanctity of the contemporary human form (or genome) is present both in devout believers in the deities of organized religion, and in equally devout worshippers of unaltered “nature”. The yuck factor—the gut feelings people use to dismiss notions of human transformation and transhuman / posthuman existence—seems to be more a symptom of discombobulation and future shock more so than the internalized tenets of any particular doctrine.
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