What J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Had to Say About the Dangers of Immortality - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Bryan Johnson is launching a religion called “ Don’t Die’s ” in an anti-aging initiative.

The venture capitalist says he is founding a religion, called Don't Die, which he claims will save the human race.

Tolkien warned of the dangers of pursuing immortality in Middle-earth.

Tolkien ’s is an epic, almost-Biblical-scale warning against the pursuit of immortality, told through mythology.

His compatriot Lewis offered a warning alarmingly close to the reality emerging now in the second quarter of the 21st century .

Any effort to claim eternal life without God is a fundamentally futile attempt to claim God for oneself.