Thu Apr 13, 2023 – 5:02 am EDT
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article was published at Fédération Internationale des Associations de Médecins Catholiques and is republished with permission from Bishop Marian Eleganti.
(LifeSiteNews) — Breaking down biological boundaries with the help of technology is not new to us physicians; indeed, it goes without saying. This can be very helpful and useful.
The problem is not the connection between humans and technology. The problem is the hubris, arrogance, human overconfidence, and presumption.
The problem is the HomoDeus: the human being who wants to be like God! The human being who makes himself god and at the same time wants to abolish God with his arbitrary self-optimization by his proper forces. The human being who puts himself in the place of God.
It is the old, always the same temptation to be like God without God (or His help). It was so in the beginning, at the fall of the angels; in paradise (“you will be like God”). It is so today, e.g. in transhumanism.
Youval Noah Harari says: “A god above us, a free will: that is over. That is ‘old news!’” One of
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