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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