The Original Sin of Transhumanism: The Desire to Be Like God, by Matija Štahan

By Matija Štahan, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 20, 2024

Matija Štahan writes about politics, culture, and religion for a number of Croatian periodicals. In English, he has written for Crisis Magazine, The European Conservative, Providence, Merion West, and Our Culture Mag.

Transhumanism is a phenomenon that cannot be reduced to a science or an ideology or a philosophy or a secular religion. It is the spirit that pervades our time and that spirit is anti-Christian.

With the first successful implementation of Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface, Neuralink, at the beginning of the year, perhaps we will one day consider that the era of transhumanism was officially begun in 2024. What is transhumanism, though? It is a phenomenon that cannot be reduced to science. It’s not just an ideology either. Nor is it a philosophy or even (only) a hidden secular religion. Transhumanism is all that and more—it is the spirit that pervades numerous phenomena of our time. As I will try to demonstrate, that spirit is anti-Christian.

Let’s start with the etymology. One of the paradoxes of our era is that we define ourselves less by nouns—let’s leave pronouns aside for now—and more by their prefixes. …

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