ТРАНСХУМАНИЗАМ КАО ИЗАЗОВ ЗА РЕЛИГИЈУ
TRANSHUMANISM AS A CHALLENGE FOR RELIGION

Summary/Abstract: The basic guiding idea of the New Age is the birth of a new era through individual and general spiritual transformation, inspired by the most diverse cultural traditions, whether they are Eastern, Celtic or tribal. In this case, the view is directed towards the past or towards the present. However, at the dawn of the third millennium, we are witnessing the birth of a new paradigm, i.e. transhumanism, which prefers to turn to the future. Unlike religious people, transhumanists strive to realize their dreams in this world by trusting in rational thought and empiricism and not in supernatural forces and God’s power. According to them, this will be achieved through scientific, technological, economic and general human development. Everything that until now has been exclusively dealt with by religion such as eternal life, eternal happiness, and Divine Providence for transhumanists is a possible outcome and result of engineering. Cyborg man has no need for the existence of a soul or for God in order to achieve the fullness of his own existence, least of all the need for all that abundance of supernatural and extraterrestrial beings, for the distinction between the sacred and the profane, as well as for the organizational forms of religious rituals. This paper aims to analyze in what way transhumanism redefines the very concept of religion or rather the annulment of Christianity itself.

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