It will take some philosophical spade-work before I think I can intelligently discuss Thomas Ligotti’s dismissal of transhumanism in The Conspiracy against the Human Race, but while I’m spading, I can at least let you all enjoy the magnificent things he has to say about the Abrahamic religions.
Many people in the world are always looking to science to save them from something. But just as many, or more, prefer old and reputable belief systems and their sectarian offshoots for salvation. So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with His corruption, a low-budget divinity passing itself off as the genuine article. (Ask the Gnostics.) They trust in Jesus Christ, a historical cipher stitched together like Frankenstein’s monster out of the parts robbed from the graves of messiahs dead and burried — a savior on a stick. They trust in the virgin-pimping Allah and his Drum Major Mohammed, a prophet-come-lately who pioneered a new genre of humbuggery for an emerging market of believers that was not being adequately served by existing religious products.
Jesus as Frankenstein’s monster — that’s awesome. And more accurate than most people know…
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