Religion and Theological Materialism

Nature as the expression of God? Nature is the expression of natural evolution which can at its zenith evolve to Godhood. Is divinity only reached through “manifestations” of divinity, as most religions believe? Manifestation is all there is, manifestations are real objects at different levels of evolution, different levels of consciousness, different levels of complexity.

For most religious thinkers it is not out of sight out of mind, it is the more out of sight the more in the mind only. For them God is a non-material, nameless, non-object which does not exist in the material world, this  God exists in the mind at its zenith of contemplation. But Godhood defined as a real supreme object can exist, at the zenith of evolution, and presumably there can be different levels of evolution in the cosmos with some objects evolved closer to Godhood than others.

Religion and philosophy can be made more concrete with real existing objects, described by a physical and material language, and not merely spiritual and abstract conceptions created out of thin air. This is Theological materialism. We can have religion and philosophy while still affirming materialism and naturalism. Then the antagonism between religion and materialism might fade.