Tuesday, April 02, 2013
On creating a new/old religious metanarrative
Existing religions tend to be against
creative religious philosophers, political and religious tyrants are
usually against “intellectuals” which is why creating new
philosophies is often done in exile.
Religious historian Mircea Eliade said
in “Ordeal by Labyrinth” that the sacred could be found at any
time in new forms, even though he had no interest in bringing out a
new form himself, which saved him a lot of grief---the charges of
personal inflation, grandiosity, and heresy are common, although I
don't think he avoided it for that reason.
Eliade said first comes the mystic who
sees the new reality, then comes the poet who expresses what the
mystic saw, then comes the historian who records the words of the
mystic and the poet. And this happened time and again throughout
human history.
Carl Jung talked about how when a
culture based on archetypal symbols grows old, the culture
dies, the religious symbols disappear (the death of god) and
eventually are replaced by a new religious cult. This was more or
less also said by conservatives T.S. Eliot and Russell Kirk too,
minus the “new” perspective.
the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) and
theological materialism is out there now, with a new yet old
myth/religion and it must fend for itself in the world. It has
changed what both Aquinas and modern science say about the
origin of laws. Religious laws are an ordinance of nature seen with
reason, science and intellectual intuition, for the evolution of
nature and humanity to Godhood, made by those who care about humanity
and nature, and then promulgated.
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