Transhumanism: The New Gnosticism?
Transhumanism gets called the new Gnosticism often enough that both camps should be annoyed by now. The comparison shows up in academic critiques, religious polemics, and the occasional self-description, and it always gestures at the same features. Contempt for the flesh, salvation through knowledge, escape from a broken world, an elect who see what the masses miss. Having spent years with the old texts, this site is in a position to grade the comparison, and the grade is a generous half credit. The places where it holds are real. The places where it breaks are where everything interesting lives. ...