From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 22:24:53 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
> On another list, someone suggested (in this context of searching for
> optimal memes):
>
>
>>I thought you might like the idea of equating "resurrection" with
>
> "reanimation."
>
> [I replied:]
>
> It's exactly the wrong approach, in my view. `Resurrection' is a
> theological term from a particular faith-based mythos, and must be allow to
> remain there. Attempting to appropriate it clearly verges (for believers)
> on the blasphemous.
Cool! Why not tell the believers that everything that their
religion teaches they can have as "celestial rewards" they can
have on earth, in real-time, and with a bit of luck, without
dying or temporarily being frozen? Watch how many more flock
out of the religions and into the transhumanists camps if they
begin to take such possibilities seriously. Blasphemy? It is
blasphemy to promise eternal life with no other means but
magical to ever deliver. Talk about vaporware.
- samantha
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