I've noticed an unfortunate trend lately of people trying to incorporate revised political and spiritual views into Transhumanism.  I believe this is a mistake of epic scale.  The only function these groups serve is to relegate a valuable societal movement to cult status.  I, of course, am guilty of this myself, but unlike those I take issue with, I keep my views mostly internal(the exception being when my views and their relationship to H+ comes up in conversation).  As self identified transhumanists and futurists(and even Prometheans and Transtopians) we should be making it clear that scientific progress doesn't care what your religious and political views are.  The only real issue is that we all want to see the tech happen.

An accompanying issue to this(which I believe to be a substitute for religion in many cases) is that of immortality.  Bring the concepts up, sure, but don't tell people who haven't recieved thorough evidence that you're not a fruitcake that you plan on living billions of years as a computer drifting around encased in an artificial moon.  It doesn't help the cause.  Once people who aren't already transhumanists hear this they immediately lump transhumanists with self identified Jedi(which in many cases is also an unfortunate false assumption about people's grasp on reality) and geeks who spend all their time in their mother's basement playing Dungeons and Dragons and dreaming that they will one day be transmuted into elves.

Please, when discussing Transhumanism with those who have not been 'initiated'(I use this term because it's likely to be interpreted and used by those mistaken about the nature of H+ under it's traditional meaning) keep it simple and don't imply that for it to happen everyone will have to follow your cultural views.  It will help the progress of Transhumanism and, as a result, help the progress of the tech as more people support it.