The Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC) provides a new conceptual framework for understanding and interpreting human society. The old theoretical tools are no longer valid, ECC presents a new guide, a new power system, new concepts, a new future, and a new synthesis.
Unlike revolutionary philosophies, ECC purposefully does not liquidate the past world views of either tradition or modernism, we reconcile and synthesize them in a Revitalized Conservatism. This keeps EC from becoming only more “opium for the intellectuals” (Raymond Aron). ECC is based in the reality of natural science along with Perennial Religion.
We do not affirm the anarchic libertarianism that grew out of the modern French philosophical rejection of all authority and power. Our master is Godhood, and the Spirit-Within and the Soul-Within life which activates and guides life, working along with natural selection, evolving all the way to Godhood.
We avoid the tyranny that often comes from the “Hegelian Dream” (Bernard Levi) of truth coming into the world, by affirming Conservatism, small steps of change in a Revitalized Conservatism which still embraces evolution. This conservatism keeps us away from the will to tyranny that infects most structures of power. We therefore do not agree that the ECC contains only the “seeds of totalitarianism” (Gluckmann). All material systems do not become Stalinism or Hitlerism.
And we do not speak of the tyranny of reason or the oppressiveness of science, we require all the reason and science available to understand the Evolutionary Outward Path to God, which works in conjunction with the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul-Within. We are not afraid of power as the new anarchic libertarians seem to be, we sublimate power to evolve to God.
We are, however, still a “school in the making,” we are one of the first--if not the first--traditional religious theologies to fully embrace sociobiology and futurism in the path toward Godhood. Our gurus are not Marx, Foucault or Solzhenitsyn, but Jesus Christ, Raymond Cattell, Edward O. Wilson, and of course Darwin.
If the truth of a theological and philosophical system is it's realization in the world and in history, then the truth of theological materialism and the ECC is yet to be fully realized. We do not want to be only a “terror of theory,” yet we do not deny the ideal that we want to attain Godhood at evolution's zenith. We think we offer a new theology-philosophy that is more than merely opposition to old ideas, we offer a new movement with sound, coherent ideas or our own, which involves all systems.
(This essay is a response to “The Poverty of the New Philosophy") by Fatos Tarifa, Modern Age, Summer, 2008)
Unlike revolutionary philosophies, ECC purposefully does not liquidate the past world views of either tradition or modernism, we reconcile and synthesize them in a Revitalized Conservatism. This keeps EC from becoming only more “opium for the intellectuals” (Raymond Aron). ECC is based in the reality of natural science along with Perennial Religion.
We do not affirm the anarchic libertarianism that grew out of the modern French philosophical rejection of all authority and power. Our master is Godhood, and the Spirit-Within and the Soul-Within life which activates and guides life, working along with natural selection, evolving all the way to Godhood.
We avoid the tyranny that often comes from the “Hegelian Dream” (Bernard Levi) of truth coming into the world, by affirming Conservatism, small steps of change in a Revitalized Conservatism which still embraces evolution. This conservatism keeps us away from the will to tyranny that infects most structures of power. We therefore do not agree that the ECC contains only the “seeds of totalitarianism” (Gluckmann). All material systems do not become Stalinism or Hitlerism.
And we do not speak of the tyranny of reason or the oppressiveness of science, we require all the reason and science available to understand the Evolutionary Outward Path to God, which works in conjunction with the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul-Within. We are not afraid of power as the new anarchic libertarians seem to be, we sublimate power to evolve to God.
We are, however, still a “school in the making,” we are one of the first--if not the first--traditional religious theologies to fully embrace sociobiology and futurism in the path toward Godhood. Our gurus are not Marx, Foucault or Solzhenitsyn, but Jesus Christ, Raymond Cattell, Edward O. Wilson, and of course Darwin.
If the truth of a theological and philosophical system is it's realization in the world and in history, then the truth of theological materialism and the ECC is yet to be fully realized. We do not want to be only a “terror of theory,” yet we do not deny the ideal that we want to attain Godhood at evolution's zenith. We think we offer a new theology-philosophy that is more than merely opposition to old ideas, we offer a new movement with sound, coherent ideas or our own, which involves all systems.
(This essay is a response to “The Poverty of the New Philosophy") by Fatos Tarifa, Modern Age, Summer, 2008)
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