Ever since being utterly irrelevant to the 2016 AD US presidential elections, Transhumanist, Atheist, socio-politically libertarian and instigator Zoltan Istvan can now, forever more, have “Presidential Candidate” next to his name—along with every other utterly irrelevant person who ever wrote themselves in. Now, what attention will the Transhumanist Party attract in coming elections is anyone’s guess.
I note that he is an instigator since he tends to make emotive and bombastic statements which get him much attention. He admits, for example, that he “put forth policies that were just sensational enough to get picked up by the media.”
He is also known for having written an anti-Christian novel, “The Transhumanist Wager”:
Zoltan Istvan made this bizarre statement during a recent debate with James Hughes who once headed the World Transhumanist Association aka Humanity+:
We live in a culture that for thousands of years has embraced a Judeo-Christian framework that really teaches us that the best way to live to live a good life and then to die and meet a maker in heaven. And it doesn’t matter if it’s the president swearing on the Bible, or the Pledge of Allegiance having the word “God” in it, it’s all around us. And even if we don’t believe in it, it’s still our framework and it leads to this culture of “deathism.”
Wait, what? A Judeo-Christian framework leads to a culture of “deathism”? It is not a Judeo-Christian framework that literally views death as the answer to many of our socio-political problems. It is libertarians, leftists and non-Judeo-Christians who, for example, prescribe abortion and euthanasia. Moreover, it was Istvan Atheist comrades who as recently as the last century mass murdered circa 200 million people in a mere few decades. Meanwhile, Christians have been busy engaging in charitable works around the world sometimes at the cost of their health, freedom and lives.
Zoltan Istvan also notes that he “advocate morphological freedom, the freedom to do what you want with your own body, as long as it’s not hurting somebody else” with “hurting” being defined according to his subjective standard de jour. In fact, he followed his statements up with “We need to create a scenario where people can do whatever they want.”
This denotes the utter deconstruction of God’s created order and is the very heart of Transhumanism. As he elucidates it, “With some of the CRISPR gene technology coming out, and people trying to grow tails and whatever they’re trying to do, there’s going to be new ways of looking at ourselves as a species and I very much think we need to embrace that.”
Istvan states, “this idea that many people don’t mind dying is what needs to be changed. It’s why I drove a coffin across the county. We can change this. It’s not a matter of religion or right or wrong” which is interesting as he had just finished stating that morphological freedom’s premise is based on “as long as it’s not hurting somebody else” which is what, class? A matter of (his subjective de jour concept of) right and (his subjective de jour concept of) wrong.
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