The sacred commonality within our differences

We all need to be proud of our identities, our ethnic backgrounds, this pride is grounded in the most basic human nature. We should champion who we are in regions, small states and localities. But what holds us together, our commonality, is our evolution toward Godhood, all of us, which necessarily reaches beyond the human species to future species. This is the universal and particular ethics we must work with if we are to survive.

But our commonalities are not looking so good at this time. I think of Nietzsche's comments about how there is nothing more powerful than when a slave class has learned to consider its existence an injustice and sets about taking revenge, not only on its own behalf but on behalf of past generations. Blacks and Latinos in America are angry and loudly proclaiming their own identities, usually by attacking whites, and the controlled popular media are going along with this, continually and increasingly depicting white males as uncool fools and white females as greedy airheads.

Whites will not continue to take this without objection, especially whites who had nothing to do with the past immoral enslavement of one people over another. Whites will increasingly affirm themselves, especially when they feel even more threatened as they become an electoral minority in their own country... This all can lead to very dangerous politics.

Wise politics sees the future and tries to get in step with it. Our differences will tear us apart, even to the point of civil war, if we don't affirm the commonality of our evolution beyond the present human species, all the way to Godhood---if we are wise enough. Can we do it? Religion can do it, making sacred the evolutionary path, a religion which affirms differences and particulars within sacred universals, as the Theoevolutionary Church does. I know of no better way to balance our rough ride to the future.