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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