Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Bringing back sacredness, myth, romance and heroism

Sacredness, myth, romance and heroism have largely gone out of our modern culture, and they have also gone out of religion, philosophy and science. The religious philosophical mythos of the Theoevolutionary Churchbrings these things back, with the epic narrative of our evolution to Godhood in the cosmos.

The God first glimpsed inwardly by the great religions is affirmed and transformed in the outward evolution of the material-supermaterial world to Godhood. Religion and science can join in this great adventure. Life evolves upwardly, with great heroism, with fallings and risings, all the way to Godhood in the cosmos.

Here is a reason to like the presocratics: Homer was more right than Plato in showing the Gods as anthropomorphic, for which Plato banned him from the Republic---Plato preferred that his highest God to be a nonmaterial mathematical Form. Godhood is not human but the Gods have material and supermaterial life.

And this is the God of the great religions, and this is also the Aristotelian God of Aquinas, but this is a transformed Godhood from the God that the great religions found inwardly---now real Godhood is also seen as attained outwardly in evolution.

It may be easier at this point in our evolution to speak of Godhood as having an absence of flaws regarding truth, beauty and goodness in comparison to humans. Evolution explains the progress of these virtues, with Godhood as having attained the zenith, or absolute, of these things.

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