Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Our Fusion

There are seven rather than five streams of conservatism, in the Theoevolutionary Church, and  in Revitalized-Conservatism.

According to the excellent writer Fred Hutchison, the five streams of Conservatism are: Traditionalist conservatism, Neoconservatism, Christian conservatism, Natural law conservatism, and Libertarianism. But this does not include the deeper stream of Sociobiological Conservatism and the seventh stream relating to our evolution to Godhood seen in the philosophy of theological materialism, that is, Revitalized-Conservatism of the Theoevolutionary Church.  Taken alone, without fusion into the other Conservative streams, sociobiology is religiously stunted. However, when the modern understanding of our biological human nature was left out---it was drummed out of the Conservative movement by William Buckley and others---this left the Conservative movement handicapped and missing the deepest view of natural rights and the richest design of nature, which are now included in theological materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church.

For example, when the great conservative historian Russell Kirk says that America inherited almost nothing of our civilization from Anglo Saxon England and that most of our laws and culture came after the Norman conquest of England, and from Rome, this seems mainly correct, but he undervalues, like most conservatives, the bio-racial elements involved in Western civilization.

The consequences of drumming the modern biological aspects of social behavior out of the Conservative movement have been damaging, and have given Conservatism a bias against our deep history, and against science, which has kept so many good people away from the Conservative movement; this could be the one thing that eventually dooms the Conservative movement in the West.

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Theoevolutionary Church also synthesizes the sociobiological Beyondism of Raymond Cattell into Traditional Religion. We believe that the design of the nature of man (natural rights) most essentially includes our divine bio-spiritual evolution to Godhood, and this is the seventh stream of Conservatism which political and religious Conservatism has not seen. This is the deepest political and religious aspects of nature and evolution. This design of nature, the evolution of life to Godhood, along with the other five streams of Conservatism, allow for the true “full flourishing of our nature according to the design of that nature.” This is our fusion.

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