Philosophers and intellectuals have had too much influence

I think philosophers and intellectuals have had too much influence in asking the question: what is the meaning of life? Too many of them have made claims that the world is only a dream, and that the exterior world is not real, and that the world has no rational meaning.

Non-philosophers are not as mixed up about these things, they do not walk into these intellectual mazes. They know the world is real and not a dream. They know that we are here to raise families and live our lives with as much happiness as we can find.

Non-philosophers are less sure about the bigger question: asking the meaning of life beyond survival and reproduction success. But people do seem to have an innate need, or an innate sense, that there is meaning and purpose to the world.

People then usually affirm a deterministic view, such as a God-origin to the world, or in modern times another deterministic view, the scientific origin of the world via a big-bang, etc. This usually satisfies people so they can get on with living their lives.

The Evolutionary Church (EC) tends to affirm the non-philosophers view that the world is real and that we are here to raise our families successfully. As to the larger picture, EC affirms both the religious and scientific worldviews: there is a big-bang type origin to the cosmos (or perhaps a kind of powerful electromagnetic dynamic), but then the purpose of life in the cosmos is to evolve to Godhood.

Now it is true that I ground this view in serious philosophy and theology (and science), but I enter theology and philosophy to find a way out of the artificial intellectual mazes and into the normal light. But perhaps that is what they all say, perhaps it is a rationalization. People have to choose what makes sense to them.