It is interesting to look at changing religions in relation to changing technology, although of course this method does not give much credit to the truths of religion.
For example, in the Paleolithic, sky-centered hunting was the technology, and male-oriented, nomadic cults imitated predators as hunters and warriors. The Neolithic brought agriculture with stable, earth-centered, female goddesses. The Iron Age brought alchemy, the seeding and “gestation” of metals in the earth. Involutionary Religion began around Vedic times, centering on the Soul within man, which eventually led to the Revealed Religions. The Megalithic monument builders seem to have been a combination of earth and sky centered religions. More recently the Scientific Revolution made a god of reason and empirical knowledge---and involutionary religion began to decline. Then the Theory of Evolution arose and became another history changer.
But science has not seemed sufficient to the deep human need for holistic religion, so now we have a “revolution” bringing evolution into religion. This seems to be as big a change as the change from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic. And this revolution brings us to the Evolutionary Christian Church, which is the religious synthesis of the involuntary Revealed Religions and the evolutionary worldview.
For example, in the Paleolithic, sky-centered hunting was the technology, and male-oriented, nomadic cults imitated predators as hunters and warriors. The Neolithic brought agriculture with stable, earth-centered, female goddesses. The Iron Age brought alchemy, the seeding and “gestation” of metals in the earth. Involutionary Religion began around Vedic times, centering on the Soul within man, which eventually led to the Revealed Religions. The Megalithic monument builders seem to have been a combination of earth and sky centered religions. More recently the Scientific Revolution made a god of reason and empirical knowledge---and involutionary religion began to decline. Then the Theory of Evolution arose and became another history changer.
But science has not seemed sufficient to the deep human need for holistic religion, so now we have a “revolution” bringing evolution into religion. This seems to be as big a change as the change from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic. And this revolution brings us to the Evolutionary Christian Church, which is the religious synthesis of the involuntary Revealed Religions and the evolutionary worldview.
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