Revitalizing Conservatism: Opposing moral relativism in joining Christianity and theological materialism

Conservatism based in Christianity said that objective truth leads to such things as free markets and social conservatism, and objective truth does not lead to atheism, collectivism or materialism. But then the atheists and collectivists cut the ground further underfoot by refusing to argue about objective truths because they believed there were no objective truths, and that relativism therefore had to rule the various fields, and that there was no right way to behave.

This is the kind of the moral relativism taught now in our colleges and universities. Such things as post-structuralist philosophy affirmed this moral relativism with its tricky arguments, but they missed or blocked the objective truths of natural science, specifically the truths coming from evolutionary sociobiology, which provided objective truths about human nature and natural life.

It turns out that conservatism can be as defined by sociobiology as one of the best ways to survive and reproduce successfully over the long term. However, conservatives have a big problem with the materialist foundation of science, so few conservatives seriously applied sociobiology in defense of conservative principles. But conservatism has to be the Burkian kind of conservatism with a willingness to change, or more importantly to evolve. The materialism of science essentially continues to be blocked by the revealed religions and by conservatives. Can scientific materialism be included without losing the spiritual Christian foundation of conservatism? Yes it can, but it requires an epic change in religious philosophy.

The revitalized conservatism I write about in this blog is based in an evolutionary interpretation of Christianity, which sees life evolving in the material and supermaterial world hopefully all the way to Godhood. Evolution is introduced to Christianity based in what I have defined as theological materialism, which means materialism is unblocked and made sacred, since evolution leads to Godhood. The God first seen inwardly as the Father Within is a symbolic mirror of the Godhood attained through evolution. This describes the Twofold Path which synthesizes old and the new definitions of Godhood, and as a consequence prevents radical religious change.

Without this revitalization the decline of conservatism and Christianity most likely will continue---which began way back in the European Renaissance of the 14th–17th centuries---and may eventually destroy the revealed religions and the cultures and societies they defended, although there could be coercive, science-hating, fundamentalist revivals at times. Theological materialism will help unblock the Great Spiritual Blockade against evolving to Godhood, and provide Christianity and conservatism with a solid foundation, once again based in objective truth and intellectual intuition.