Change as the most powerful law of nature, and the means of its conservatism

I have taken the conservatism of Burke and Kirk seriously, I understand what Hilaire Belloc meant when he said Europe is the faith and when the faith dies the culture dies. But I also think we need to go even deeper than this in understanding the rise and fall of cultures.

The Twofold Path of the Evolutionary Christian Church, which I write about in this blog, seeks to retain the Inward Path faith of the God Within of Christianity, but it also includes the Outward Path of evolution to Godhood in the cosmos, which is grounded in a sociobiological understanding of the rise and fall of cultures.

The cultures of Europe, China, Russia, Africa were created by the people, with the ethnic traits of these lands, who then adapted Christianity or any other religion to their particular people, their worlds. When the ethnic group dies or changes the culture changes, often including the religion.

We can affirm a variety of regions and states with different people, different ethnic cultures, knowing that it is the people and the traits of the people who create the cultures, before the faith. This is absolutely natural and harmonious with human nature. We can hold the different cultures and regions and small states together protected internally and externally by a light federalism, but also bonded by a universal faith, a religion which understands the importance of our differences as we all evolve in our own fashion and in our own states toward the outward Godhood first seen as the inward God by the traditional faiths.

Burke wrote, change is the most powerful law of nature, and the means of its conservatism.