Grayson Quay

Not happening.

Well, I wrote this book not necessarily for War Room viewers who are pretty keyed in on this issue, but for people who don't take the threat of transhumanism seriously, who think it's just this crazy fringe sci-fi thing that's far away.

And my argument in this book is, no, the transhumanist temptation is the same temptation from the Garden of Eden.

It's ye shall be as gods.

which isn't a lie per se, it's kind of a half-truth.

You know, if you believe in theosis, if you believe in kind of the promises God makes to his people to raise them up to be partakers of the divine nature and sons of God equal to the angels, there is truth in the statement you'll be as gods.

The lie that Satan tells there in the garden is that you can have that deification, you can have that immortality and that power apart from a relationship with God and in defiance of God, and that is what transhumanism promises us.

Yeah, no, I don't think it's science fiction.

And I think we leave ourselves vulnerable when we treat it as if it's something that's in the future.

It's right now.

Mary Harrington has her great book, Feminism Against Progress, where she says the birth control pill is the first transhumanist technology because it inverts what we have historically used medicine and technology as a whole for.

which is we start with a standard of human flourishing.

We know what a healthy, flourishing human being looks like.

This informs our conceptions of natural law.

And we use our technology to either fix humans when they're broken or sick or advance sort of basic human goods that we're able to identify by looking at our nature and lead us toward this flourishing, this Aristotelian idea of eudaimonia.

The birth control pill or other transhuman technologies basically say, we're going to take something that's healthy and break it in accordance with the will or desires of someone and not informed by their nature.

Well, I don't think so.

I mean, I think, you know, if you're a Christian transhumanist, it's almost redundant in the sense if you believe that God's eventually going to glorify us and raise us to...

you know, reign with Christ.

But if you're a Christian who believes that apart from God, we're going to use technology to raise ourselves to omnipotence and to immortality, then no, that's an inherently Luciferian project.