Kant's reaction to secularism and nihilism was to say that “reason” can define even the Christian moral law. Darwin's evolution appeared to rule out a teleological or religious view of nature. Nietzsche said that since Christianity is untrue, then Christian morality is untrue, which would lead us to nihilism; but Nietzsche continued by saying that we could overcome nihilism by saying yes to life without meaning, saying yes to life beyond good and evil. Post-modernism followed this lead. And so the world now stands.
Theoretical materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church deals with these problems by saying that orthodox religion, the revealed religions, or more deeply, the Perennial Tradition, are all true regarding the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul-Within--and we too affirm this Inward Path--but the traditional religions are tragically missing the Evolutionary Outward Path of evolution to real Godhood.
We reaffirm a teleological view of nature by affirming the pattern of evolution, from the simple to the complex, toward higher consciousness and beauty, and by religiously taking this evolutionary pattern to the zenith of Godhood. Not only do we embrace science, we embrace in many ways the new sociobiological science of Beyondism, that is, Cattell's religion from science, but we go further than Cattell in affirming future evolution all the way to Godhood, the goal of the Spirit-Within of the Outward Path and the symbolic goal of the Soul-Within of the Inward Path.
This is how we deal with the secularism and nihilism of the present world.
For the older conservative view of dealing with these things see “Conservatism, Christianity, and the Revitalization of Europe,” by Lee Congdon, from First Principles.
Theoretical materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church deals with these problems by saying that orthodox religion, the revealed religions, or more deeply, the Perennial Tradition, are all true regarding the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul-Within--and we too affirm this Inward Path--but the traditional religions are tragically missing the Evolutionary Outward Path of evolution to real Godhood.
We reaffirm a teleological view of nature by affirming the pattern of evolution, from the simple to the complex, toward higher consciousness and beauty, and by religiously taking this evolutionary pattern to the zenith of Godhood. Not only do we embrace science, we embrace in many ways the new sociobiological science of Beyondism, that is, Cattell's religion from science, but we go further than Cattell in affirming future evolution all the way to Godhood, the goal of the Spirit-Within of the Outward Path and the symbolic goal of the Soul-Within of the Inward Path.
This is how we deal with the secularism and nihilism of the present world.
For the older conservative view of dealing with these things see “Conservatism, Christianity, and the Revitalization of Europe,” by Lee Congdon, from First Principles.
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