Religious Transhumanism

A standard trope of science fiction has religious groups using violence to stop a new technology. Perhaps because of this, many are surprised by the existence of religious transhumanists. — Robin Hanson · April 11, 2017Transhumanism with religious emphasis or syncretics.
Although most self-identified Transhumanists today are secular, Transhumanism’s origins actually extend through the secular to religious Humanism. New Testament writers and centuries of early Orthodox and Catholic authorities syncretized Christianity with Neoplatonism, 3 the popular science of their day, and many advocated identifying with Christ and becoming God. 4 Thirteenth-century Scholastic theologians continued the synthesis of Christianity with popular science, 5 which was at the time the newly rediscovered ideas of Aristotle. [L. Cannon, Published 04 July 2019]
Over time, religious Humanism became increasingly concerned with explicitly technological expressions. Nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox priest, Nikolai Fyodorov, proclaimed that the common task of humanity should be the technological resurrection of our ancestors. 7 And twentieth-century Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, advocated a vision of human evolution, accelerated by technology, merging inexorably into a conception of God. 8 [L. Cannon, Published 04 July 2019]
The self-identified religious Transhumanist movement began in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Some religious Transhumanists founded new religions. In 2004, inspired in part by Octavia Butler’s fictional religion, Earthseed, 9 Martine Rothblatt founded the Terasem Movement Transreligion with four core beliefs: life is purposeful, death is optional, God is technological, and love is essential. 10 And in 2010, inspired in part by Cosmism, Giulio Prisco founded the Turing Church as a minimalist, open, extensible cosmic religion, to complement traditional religions. 11 [L. Cannon, Published 04 July 2019]
== Rhizomata ==
Christian Transhumanism (e.g. Catholic Transhumanism; Protestant Transhumanism); Islamic Transhumanism; Neo-Christian Transhumanism (e.g. Mormon Transhumanism); Transfigurism
Category:Religion