{"id":237787,"date":"2026-05-01T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/the-heresies-of-todays-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:25:19","slug":"the-heresies-of-todays-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/the-heresies-of-todays-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heresies Of Today\u2019s Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2026\/05\/the-heresies-of-todays-technology\/\">The Heresies Of Today\u2019s Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2026\/05\/the-heresies-of-todays-technology\/\">https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2026\/05\/the-heresies-of-todays-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-01 06:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.patheos.com\">www.patheos.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Roman Catholic church has been scrutinizing the implications of AI and other technology in a way that Protestants too can find useful.\u00a0 The Vatican\u2019s International Theological Commission (ITC) has released a study document on the anthropology\u2013that is, the doctrine of man\u2013that is being promulgated by the new technology.<\/p>\n<p>From Quo Vadis, Humanitas?\u00a0(my emphasis):<\/p>\n<p>Transhumanism\u00a0is a philosophical movement that operates on the belief that human beings can and should use the resources of science and technology to <strong>overcome the physical and biological limitations of the human condition, in particular ageing and even death<\/strong>, thus shaping their own evolution and maximising their own potential to the point of redesigning human beings to make them fitted to \u2018go beyond\u2019. With its programmatic emphasis on increasing individual human capabilities, it develops a distinctly anthropocentric perspective, subscribing to an ideological and naively uncritical view of scientific and technological progress.<\/p>\n<p>Transhumanism\u00a0imagines a future in which human beings will perfect the current biological form that defines human nature, in order to achieve <strong>the goal of individual immortality, supported by technology.<\/strong> In the utopian scope of its quest for immanent immortality,\u00a0transhumanism\u00a0can be interpreted as the existential expression of a presumption that is both naive and arrogant.<\/p>\n<p>I would note that this anthropological heresy goes far beyond issues of technology, of course.\u00a0 Though\u00a0 tech billionaires are investing vast sums of money on research to cure death, we also see the assumptions of transhumanism that we should \u201cgo beyond\u201d our biological bodies in the transgender movement.\u00a0 Also in genetic engineering, whereby we design our own children, and in the reproductive technologies that conceives babies apart from sexual relationships.\u00a0 The study goes on:<\/p>\n<p>Posthumanism, understood in the strict sense, criticises traditional humanism, questioning the specificity of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2026\/05\/the-heresies-of-todays-technology\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heresies Of Today\u2019s Technology https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2026\/05\/the-heresies-of-todays-technology\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-01 06:05:00 Source Domain: www.patheos.com The Roman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/305\/2026\/04\/ai-machine-portrait.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237789,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237787\/revisions\/237789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}