Monday, March 22, 2010

The Spiritualists and Materialists Were Both Right

More Borders Mean More Peace Not Less

Evolution is taking us to Godhood, this is the higher realm we can aspire to. This synthesizes religion and science. Natural law can therefore function with divine law. Godhood did “construct” human nature in the sense that our evolution, which originated from Godhood, is what defines us. Therefore spiritualists and materialists were both right.

We are the “Constructors” (see Frederick Turner, “Art, Nature and Human Evolution,” American Arts, Winter 2010) of our outward self, however, the original Constructor was Godhood, a Godhood which was attained through Kosmic material evolution. As our descendants now live on within us, so God lives on in us through the Holy Spirit, which is the central activator of our evolution back to Godhood. Then the cycle repeats itself.

We do, as the social constructivists say, create our own societies to help us survive, but it involves more than this reduction to survival only. We are activated by the Spirit Within to evolve to Godhood, which defines far more than mere survival and reproduction. The Spirit Within works along with these natural forces, there is an “invisible hand” in the evolutionary mechanism, which is the activation of material evolution by the Spirit Within to evolve to Godhood. Evolution is full of starts and stops and backward goings and branchings which create diversity on earth and in the Kosmos, but the direction of material evolution is linear and activated by the Spirit Within and we are free within this evolving divine path.

The evolutionary psychologists desperately sought to distance themselves, in light of the real horrors of World War Two, from any eugenic theory, but they moved too far away. They did not have the insight or the courage to see any connection between evolution and religion. Had they looked deeper and had more courage they might have seen the natural and religious synthesis of biology and theology. This perhaps understandable mistake was in seeing eugenics (now transformed into genetic engineering) only in terms of selfish racism, where a noble Aryan or a Chosen race is affirmed against all others.

All ethnic groups seek to evolve to Godhood and all ethnic groups should be encouraged to do so. This ecumenical, religious, affirmation of evolution is valid no matter how mixed in heritage present ethnic groups may be. Human beings naturally seek their own, prefer their own, human beings separate naturally and always have done so. This variety and separation should be celebrated not blockaded.

In political terms “devolution” from larger states to smaller states is preferred, but biological devolution is a real enemy of all people. Our bodies and Spirit are all “tested” in the natural world of evolution. In this sense our cultures and religions are, as the sociobiologists say, devices for survival and reproductive success.

A borderless world has no relation to human nature, which evolved one hundred thousand years ago and has virtually not changed today. More borders mean more peace not less. History has proved time again that when borders separating ethnic groups are artificially destroyed they always return again, and often with violence.

The Theoevolutionary Church affirms the Evolutionary Path of all people to Godhood, the Godhood first seen in the Involutionary Path of the Revealed Religions. We affirm this Twofold Path, the Inward (Spiritual) and Outward (Material) Path to Godhood.

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