How a Christian Views the Aims and Goals of Transhumanism

Posted: August 27th, 2021

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How a Christian Views the Aims and Goals of Transhumanism

            Christians view Transhumanism’s aims and goals as a prescription for world dangers that would, in turn, endanger the lives and livelihoods of humanity. Specifically, Christians are quite apprehensive about the working dynamics of humans without physical bodies. For example, they regard Transhumanism as a dangerous means to attain immortality vis-à-vis a form of disembodied robotic presence. Therefore, a Christian feels odd with some of the goals of Transhumanism in the following ways.

           Christians feel that Transhumanism is destined to erode humanity’s sacredness concerning its change approach to human characteristics. With Transhumanism sharing its philosophy of atheistic view directly from Postmodernism, humans are seen as mere products to promote evolutionary development (Yeager 1). Therefore, Christians fault Transhumanism’s philosophy that seeks to change the physical body’s characteristics without resurrection. Similarly, Christians feel absurd about the notion that Transhumanism seeks to advance regarding the future of humanity. It is morally out of the question among Christians to imagine an embodied society and further unencumbered by the existential limitations (Yeager 1). Therefore, as I see it, Christians seem struggling to understand Transhumanism’s goals despite long overcoming bodily weaknesses.

           With Transhumanism centered on attaining immortality via mind-ware, Christians seem apprehensive of the future of God’s creation with the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specifically, they view Transhumanism as another kind of AI that borrows heavily on robotics principles without humanity’s moral perspective(Yeager 3). Overall, Christians feel that the concept of immortality has always compelled humans to seek redemption by repenting their sins. Consequently, there is a possibility that unembodied humanity would continue to sin, knowing that they have the power to influence their transformation without the help of another higher power other than them.

Works Cited

Yeager, Andrew. “Transhumanism: The Dangers of Humans Without Bodies.” The Lutheran Witness, 2016, https://witness.lcms.org/2016/transhumanism-the-danger-of-humans-without-bodies/. Accessed 21 Oct. 2020.