Impact of Technology to Human's Spiritual Dimension

The world is fast changing, and with these changes, people rely on technologies to address these changes. There are some issues that I think are worth discussing when it comes to the spiritual or theological dimensions of technology namely: birth control, Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMO), and cloning.

The population is increasing. What should we do? The primary solution that the government tapped is birth control. There are two types of birth control: the Natural and the Artificial. Either of the two is no doubt, technology. But it is not appropriate (the Artificial way, at least) when we are talking about religion or Theology. In our country, being a Catholic Nation, people are debating. Everyone has their opinion. Another solution offered was the use of Genetically-Modified Organisms which are engineered to address the limitations of the natural varieties. There is still the issue of the safety in consuming them but the issue regarding Theology is about the alteration of the genes of a certain living organism. The term “Act of God” was associated to condemn this technology. It is said that human is acting like God in creating another life form. Another technology that is synonymous to this is cloning. This is the most controversial technology on earth, I think. Though it is said that it is not yet tested to human, it is still the biggest issue.

Now, the impact of these technologies to human beings’ Spiritual dimension is the open-mindedness and how people would take a stand in facing an issue that involves the belief and faith or how would people accept or deny possibilities offered by the fast changing society.