Karl Hale

Portrait of Karl Hale

Karl Hale is a speaker at Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) conferences, known for his engaging presentations on topics such as the worship of extraterrestrial humanoid deities. His perspective is informed by his background as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his reflections on the nature of God.

Before turning his attention to philosophical and theological explorations, Karl spent 15 years in the software and web industries. He holds a master’s degree in information systems and worked as a programmer, manager, and executive. Currently, Karl dedicates a significant portion of his time to motivational juggling—another of his passions.

Karl has been married to Anna Lisa Bradford Hale for 18 years and is the father of eight children. Together, they manage a small homestead, raising their family alongside a diverse collection of animals, including 27 chickens, six goats, six frogs, and one cat.

Karl’s engagement with Mormon theology, coupled with his interest in transhumanist concepts—such as the potential for technologically advanced beings—provides a unique and thought-provoking perspective. He is an engaging and interesting speaker.

Videos by Karl Hale

Worshiping an Extra-Terrestrial Humanoid Deity
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Karl Hale

Worshiping an Extra-Terrestrial Humanoid Deity

Karl Hale recounts how an online challenge to articulate his beliefs led him to embrace the description of worshiping an extraterrestrial humanoid deity—a characterization that, upon reflection, he found entirely consistent with mainstream Latter-day Saint theology. He explains that his understanding of God as omnipotent and omniscient “for all practical purposes” places the divine firmly within nature and subject to natural law, making him simultaneously an atheist regarding supernatural conceptions of God and a theist who believes in a concrete, embodied being. Hale argues that transhumanism strengthens this belief by making posthuman beings—whom mere mortals would worship—seem entirely plausible, and concludes by reframing Christ’s commandments to love as a natural law essential for humanity’s posthuman ascension.