Tuesday, August 07, 2012
The way out of nihilism: Nietzsche's death of religion was premature
Early Nietzsche saw no way to avoid the
collapse of religion and the subsequent nihilism and
“barbarizing” of culture. He thought that modern science,
naturalism and modern philosophy had been the main culprits in its
demise. In later work Nietzsche proposed a new philosophy or
“religion” of the superman, the transvaluation of all values,
eternal recurrence, the will-to-power.
But Nietzsche's death of religion was premature in light of the development of the synthesis of
Christianity and theological materialism in the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church. The God of Christianity, the Father Within of
Jesus Christ and the Inward Path, was a traditional, virtual, glimpse
of the real Godhood which can be attained through material and
supermaterial evolution in the Outward Path to Godhood.
This religious philosophy can save
Christianity, and religion in general, and it can give sacred
meaning to science. We are all evolving to Godhood, bonded within our various groups and ethnostates. This is the revitalized-conservative way out of
the nihilism and hedonism of the modern world. The revolutions of
communism and fascism were too radical and too far removed from human nature to work for humanity.
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