Theistic Transhumanism

Nearly forgotten today, The Martyrdom of Man was once considered a substitute Bible for secularists. Published in 1872 by the Scottish adventurer William Winwood Reade, the volume had Winston Churchill, George Orwell, A. A. Milne, and Sherlock Holmes among its admiring readers. For Reade, humanity progresses but only along the way of the cross, painfully escaping the physical prison of war and the intellectual prison of dogmatic religion to enter a bright, well-lighted world of reason, freedom, and never-ending progress.