Why save religion?

The decadence of the Inward Path religions, which includes Christianity, that is, their asceticism in seeking the God Within by blocking life and the real material world, can be transformed, not by throwing away the Inward Path but by including the Outward Path of evolution to real Godhood. The ecstatic love-experience of the Father Within now needs to be seen as a symbolic-experience of the real Godhood reached through material and supermaterial evolution.

The Inward Path is the theme, the Outward Path is the music. But great art alone can't save us from our decadence, as Nietzsche tended to believe, but religion transformed can, religion revitalized, brought into the real world with Godhood at the zenith of evolution in the world.

Why save religion? Aside from the importance of the conservative view of human nature, ask sociobiology, it tells us of the bonding of religion, the group-orientation of religion, the catharsis and passion of religion, and the human survival importance of these things. People need to know where they are going and need cooperation in getting there, over the long term, which is made sacred in religion, and our evolution to Godhood is a very long term goal requiring Ordered Evolution. Science alone can't do this, it needs the discordant concord of religion, the cooperative competition of the Twofold Path.