[ExI] Other thoughts on transhumanism and religion

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/31/07, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Should we be afraid to give a message of great hope to humanity?  Should
> we be afraid that we will be taken to be just more pie in the sky
> glad-hand dreamers?   Should we not dare to say that the science and the
> technology combined with a bit (well perhaps more than a bit) of a shift
> of consciousness could make all the best dreams of all the religions and
> all the generations a reality?   Will we not have failed to grasp this
> great opportunity if we do not say it and dare to think it and to live
> it?   Shall we be so afraid of being considered "like a religion" that
> we do not offer any real hope to speak of and are oh so careful in all
> we do and say and dismissive of more unrestrained and open dreamers?
> Or will we embrace them, embrace our own deepest longings and admit our
> kinship with those religious as with all the longing of all the
> generations that came before us.  Will we turn our backs on them or even
> disdain their dreams - we who are in a position to begin at long last to
> make most of those dreams real?   How can we help but be a bit giddy
> with excitement?   How can we say no to such an utterly amazing
> mind-blowing opportunity?
>

Well put! (And apologies to any who dislike reading one-line replies, but I
think sometimes it's worth curbing one's instinct to post only when one has
an argument.)
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