{"id":77160,"date":"2018-03-25T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/life-death-immortality-the-21st-century-way"},"modified":"2018-03-25T08:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T15:02:42","slug":"life-death-immortality-the-21st-century-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/life-death-immortality-the-21st-century-way","title":{"rendered":"Life, death, immortality, the 21st century way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-death-immortality-the-21st-century-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New article in Republican Herald out with #transhumanism for Palm Sunday:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Today is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. It is a week of great drama, but not of tragedy. A few days after his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Christ will be crucified. On Easter, the first day of a new week, he will rise from the dead to live eternally.<\/p>\n<p>Belief in this resurrection is the core of Christian faith, and on Easter Christians proclaim, \u201cOh death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These words of hope and faith were written by St. Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians. Strangely, in 2018, they could also be a rallying cry for transhumanists and life-extenders, atheists in their vast majority.<\/p>\n<p>For them, death is the great enemy because \u201cDeath is wrong.\u201d This is the title of a 2014 transhumanist children\u2019s book by Gennady Stolyarov II, whose young character angrily tells his mother that \u201cpeople should not die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/republicanherald.com\/news\/life-death-immortality-the-21st-century-way-1.2317000\">http:\/\/republicanherald.com\/news\/life-death-immortality-the-...-1.2317000<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New article in Republican Herald out with #transhumanism for Palm Sunday: Today is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. It is a week of great drama, but not of tragedy. A few days after his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Christ will be crucified. On Easter, the first day of a new week, he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77160","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=77160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}