The quest for upgrading mankind and creating super-intelligence (and an inferred godhood) is an ancient belief. In its contemporary form, mankind believes it has finally found the key to eternal life through advanced computer technology.
Yuval Noah Harari, an acolyte of the World Economic Forum, believes this to be the concept of homo deus – when man becomes god. In fact, he says, “History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods.”
You see, man craves superintelligence and there is a modern belief that superintelligence and godhood will be the products of human ingenuity. But the most incredible part of our faith is not that man could somehow become a god but that God became a Man in the Person of Jesus Christ, to seek and to save the lost. He is the true God-Man.
Yuval Noah Harari believes that physical death is simply a technical problem that will yield to medical advances within the next hundred years. Not so. Death is much more than a technical problem that may be solved through technological advancement and transhumanism.
When you consider the history of mankind, it becomes evident that humanity’s efforts to achieve divinity do not lead to something superhuman, but they lead to something terrifyingly subhuman.
The more they try to elevate themselves, the more they sink into violence and tyranny – as was horrifically demonstrated in the 20th century. Hannah Arendt, who wrote one of the first books on totalitarianism (published in 1951) was convinced that it was rooted in a utopianism based on the rejection of God and the deification of man:
“What binds these men together is a firm and sincere belief in human omnipotence. Their moral cynicism, their belief that everything is permitted, rests on the solid conviction that everything is possible. In trying to create a perverse heaven on earth, totalitarian systems acknowledge no limit on either their conduct or their aspirations. From there it is but a short distance to the mass killing of – and terror endemic to – totalitarianism: from Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz and Treblinka, to the Soviet Union’s Lubyanka prison and Perm-36 gulag, to Communist China’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. The concentration and extermination camps of these regimes serve as the laboratories in which the fundamental belief of totalitarianism that everything is possible is being verified.”
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