Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The evolutionary religious defense of Godhood is better than Nietzsche's presocratic solution
Early Nietzsche celebrated pre-Socratic
philosophy, he believed Hellenic culture was already in decline by
the time of Socrates, he preferred the pre-Socratics. But that was the way backward. What we need
is a post-scientific philosophy of evolutionary religion.
Evolutionary religion can be better for us than Nietzsche's call for
a new tragic art as the “saving sorceress.” Other than a few
anachronistic fundamentalists, the modern world has lost religion,
which has brought a lost morality, a lost worldview, along with
unchecked hedonism. People need a religious yet scientific way to
see through our complicated and sometimes terrible modern existence.
The Outward Path can be seen as a
masculine account of the origin of our heroic struggle as we evolve
to Godhood, the Inward Path can remain the more feminine ascetic path
to the God Within. This is the Twofold Path which joins the past and
future. The Inward Path is the Fall, the Outward Path is the Rise.
This religious philosophy can bring meaning, beauty, glory, and morality back to
real material existence. This is a believable theodicy, a moral defense of
Godhood and the evolutionary struggles of the world which is
better than Nietzsche's "beyond good and evil" solution. This is a
religious philosophy better than a new pre-Socratic art and myth which early Nietzsche advocated
as the way to save his God-is-dead worldview. Real and sacred art
can rise from the evolutionary religious impulse, which is a
universal impulse.
The sacred evolution to Godhood seen in the Theoeolutionary Church turns our gaze away from the absurd
modern world without attacking or blocking material life, as the
great religions tended to do. The material world is transformed into
the super-material world as we evolve to Godhood. This is the
Godhood that was first seen inwardly as the Father Within by the
great religions, which can be retained and not thrown out. The new fits in with the old in a Revitalized Conservatism and Ordered Evolution.
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