A Very Tall Order

According to Quentin Taylor, around the time of  "The Birth of Tragedy” early Nietzsche wanted art and philosophy (thinking of Schopenhauer and Wagner) to take the place of failed myth and religion, but Nietzsche knew that art and philosophy would have to fulfill the same needs previously satisfied by myth and religion. That is, it would need to bestow life with meaning again, unify experience, preserve horizons, direct these activities, provide a link to the sacred, and finally to persuade society to embrace these things. This was a very tall order indeed and even early Nietzsche was never quite sure that this could fully take place.

The religion of the Evolutionary Christian Church and the philosophy of theological materialism has not given up on religion. It has the same hope of fulfilling the needs of failed religion. Western culture is a decaying mess mainly due to having rejected religion, or having had religion destroyed by the forces against it. This time science can be added to religion as an aid in our nature-sanctioned evolution toward Godhood in the cosmos. A very tall order indeed. Our survival may depend on it.