[ExI] Transhumanism and Not All Religions Were Created Equal

[Stefano Vaj]

2009/12/14 Post Futurist <p0stfuturist at yahoo.com>
>  >Stefano Vaj wrote:
> >The real point IMHO is: if "religion" must  be, why do we need a
> metaphysical, faith-based, anti-scientific one?
>
> We here don't; virtually no one who thought so would subscribe to exl-chat long-term. Modern reactive (and 'reactive' means profoundly reactive) religion is like Luddism a reaction to the misapplication of technologies since the Industrial Revolution.

The truth however is that *a few* religions have always been
metaphysical, faith-based and implicitely anti-scientific, much before
than an industrial revolution ever took place.

In fact, it has been argued that their coming substantially *delayed*
the development of modern technoscience (let alone pushed back actual
technology by centuries...), of which some promising signs were
emerging. According to other theories, their coming actually helped or
caused the revolution started with the modern age inasmuch as the
latter was also a strong reaction to centuries of obscurantism and
decadence ("what does not kill us, make us stronger"...).

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Stefano Vaj