For the last half century, we have been told about the decline of religion in America. Church attendance is low, the numbers identifying as religious nones is rising. The trends speak to a waning of religiosity.

Yet in the modern age religious feeling abounds. The faithful are among us. They don’t wear robes or tunics. They won’t don palliums or wield scepters. There is no threat of sandalwood incense accosting your nares. In fact, most of the adherents of this faith are outwardly unrecognizable even to themselves. They cannot grasp the religious sentiment that guides them because they have not yet named it.

The religion I speak of is transhumanism. In my estimation, it is the most prolific yet least acknowledged religion that man has ever espoused. Who is a transhumanist? It is someone who believes in the primacy of progress and technology in augmenting the health, well-being, intelligence, and dominance of the human species. The transhumanist believes that we can utilize technology to alter or hack our own evolution and become better beings than nature alone would allow.