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Sacred Spaces
St. Peter’s Church (Peterskirche) Vienna, Austria
True Beauty
O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
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Francis X. Maier
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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
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Brad Miner
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Eduardo J. Echeverria
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The impossibility of Christian transhumanism
Wesley J. Smith, First Things
Friday, March 25, 2022
Transhumanism is the belief that we can become H+, which is to say, better than human, even eventually immortal here on earth. This is what happens when God is removed from the human equation: it engenders hopelessness and breeds nihilism. Transhumanism’s focus is solipsistic, its purposes eugenic.