{"id":72342,"date":"2017-09-04T16:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/christian-transhumanism-yes-says-pastor"},"modified":"2017-09-04T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T23:42:27","slug":"christian-transhumanism-yes-says-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/christian-transhumanism-yes-says-pastor","title":{"rendered":"Christian transhumanism? Yes, says pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facts of life, even for passionate seperation of church and state advocates like me: Religious #transhumanism is growing.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2013 A Christian pastor from Florida is promoting acceptance of some forms of transhumanism, saying believers should be open to finding an \u201cethical alternative\u201d to the complete rejection of the scientific, technical and philosophical transhumanist movement that has already begun.<\/p>\n

Rev. Christopher Benek, associate pastor of family ministries and mission at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, writes in the Christian Post<\/a> that it\u2019s time for the development of \u201cChristian transhumanism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have read the The American Conservative\u2019s recent postings about the evolving transhumanist movement, you have likely developed reasonable concerns,\u201d Benek wrote. \u201cPeople should be dismayed at Zoltan Istvan\u2019s misguided article in TAC from two weeks ago entitled: \u2018The Growing World of Libertarian Transhumanism.\u2019 And, if one believes that Istvan\u2019s transhumanism represents all transhumanists, then Kai Weiss\u2019 follow-up piece \u201cTranshumanism is Not Libertarian, It\u2019s an Abomination,\u201d is correct and appropriately titled. But these two depictions do not represent the majority of transhumanist thought. As such I would request: Please folks do not throw the transhumanist-baby out with Zoltan Istvan\u2019s bathwater. There is an ethical transhumanist alternative: Christian Transhumanism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benek says \u201cChristians can make a positive moral impact\u201d on the debate over transhumanism rather than throw the baby out with the bathwater.<\/p>\n

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Facts of life, even for passionate seperation of church and state advocates like me: Religious #transhumanism is growing. WASHINGTON \u2013 A Christian pastor from Florida is promoting acceptance of some forms of transhumanism, saying believers should be open to finding an \u201cethical alternative\u201d to the complete rejection of the scientific, technical and philosophical transhumanist movement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}