Theological materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church contain the stylistic unity and organic integration that Nietzsche thought genuine culture had to contain.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Comparing Nietzsche's theory of Western culture with theological materialism
I accept early Nietzsche's theory
of Western culture, as excellently presented by Quintin Taylor, but there
seems to be a bias against science, almost to the
degree to where the Traditionalist School might wish to claim Nietzsche.
But we must be careful not to mistake this because it was what Nietzsche called
the “Alexandrian” that followed after Hellenic culture which
Nietzsche most disliked. Still, the bias against science was there.
Both Nietzsche and Wagner wanted a
return to presocratic ancient myth, ancient ethnic myth, which they thought of as a
revival of the Hellenic culture they loved. The “orientalization”
of Greek culture as a result of the wanderings of Alexander the Great was
not acceptable to Nietzsche. Christianity was, for Nietzsche, more
of the same orientalization of Western Hellenic culture. The revival
of the “German Spirit” was a revival of Hellenic culture
for Nietzsche and Wagner. This later led to Hitler's brutal attempt to create a revived Hellenic-German culture, although
political correctness has tried to remove this Nietzschean influence
on Hitler.
I do not think science has been
decadent for the West, but it certainly has had problems fitting in
with art, myth and religion. I believe that science needs to be
attached to religion, and with more than a worship of pure science.
Science lacks a religious cosmic end-goal, as well as a sacred activating force to
life. This religious cosmic end-goal, as well as the sacred activating force to
life, are seen in theological materialism.
The goal of material life and
evolution is to evolve to supermaterial Godhood---evolutionary Godhood is an
extension of the God first seen inwardly (the Father Within) by the great religions.
This religious worldview stands in contrast to the attempted radical return to the ancient, presocratic, Hellenic-Germanic
culture of Nietzsche, Wagner and Hitler. In the new religious process of the sacred evolution of
humanity to Godhood, Ordered Evolution,
Revitalized Conservatism, and sciences such as sociobiology, can work well with theological materialism, to actually combat the decadence of the West which Nietzsche saw but could not cure.
Theological materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church contain the stylistic unity and organic integration that Nietzsche thought genuine culture had to contain.
Theological materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church contain the stylistic unity and organic integration that Nietzsche thought genuine culture had to contain.
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