New-time religion

[...]even if Judaism and Christianity are reduced to vestigial influence in America, they will be replaced not by unbelief but by different creeds. Transhumanists view evolution as ultimately increasing intelligence-a benevolent deity of sorts. [...]they assume a moral obligation to "increase evolution" to the end that "just as humanism freed us from the chains of superstition, transhumanism would free us from the chains of biology." According to Cannon, Mormonism is a "materialist religion, in which everything is matter and God is material.\n Or so says Cannon.