There definitely are plenty of religious wackos who take up the Singularity too. You need to make a distinction between the views of a group and the wackos with

There definitely are plenty of religious wackos who take up the Singularity too. You need to make a distinction between the views of a group and the wackos within that group. Especially when it comes to something as nebulous/fuzzy as the singularity. I totally agree that there are some "singularitarians" who do treat it as a religion, they are just so excited by the ideas that they irrationally glom on and make nonsensical claims, but this doesn't reflect the views of all of the members. Take a look at this: http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/09/30/three-major-singularity-schools/ http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/09/30/three-major-singular... For example, Bush is a member of the Republican Party, but I don't assume that all Republicans are deranged genocidal maniacs.