Thursday, April 04, 2013
Religion and Promethean Art
We can have a creative relationship
between religion and art, which is what happened in Ancient Greece
and Medieval Catholicism, and this can save art from the truly inferior
modern art of the past 100 years. We will need to endure the long
and heroic trials of our long evolution to Godhood in the cosmos and
art will help us endure.
Nietzsche thought art and religion
arise from the same impulse that nature employs to make our existence
bearable and help us survive (and this was long before sociobiology). But
our evolution to Godhood is not merely a powerful illusion to help us
survive and evolve (although it can help survival), this evolution is based in material and supermaterial religion and science,
bringing art and science together.
Our evolution to Godhood must be
considered an even greater mission than creating individual geniuses,
which Nietzsche thought was what made Greek culture great (see "The Republic of Genius"). Our
evolution can bring new Promethean art into our evolutionary
religion, which we do need in our devolving and degenerate
world---our desperation may lead us to it. The primary task of our
religion is greater than the Greeks, which certainly sounds grandiose
yet is necessary, that is, the continuous evolution of
great beings in great cultures all the way to ascending levels of Godhood, the Godhood
first seen only inwardly by the great religions.
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