Natural and anti-natural religion

One difference I see between ancient and modern pagans is that the modern pagans will talk about how they affirm nature and natural values but then they often go on to affirm the unnatural values of cultural Marxism (political correctness) or modern liberalism which does not correspond well with real human nature, which was perhaps more harmonious with ancient paganism, such as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This human nature still remains, it has not disappeared, it has been corrupted by anti-natural values.

There is a “right wing” paganism which relates more to real human nature but they tend to go on to support imperialism or the superiority of one race over another rather than seeing the more natural ethnopluralism, which fits better with real human nature and nature itself.

I believe it is wrong to deny the real material world in religion, or to try to live outside the orders and structures of naturalism. Some of the problem stems from a false duality seen between the spiritual and the material rather than thinking in terms of materialism and supermaterialism. Religion needs to relate to real human beings living in the natural world, with Godhood reached by way of material and supermaterial evolution.  Science is also then not shut out of religion.

This becomes a less radical perspective when the Godhood reached for in evolution is understood as the God first seen and experienced symbolically as the God Within or the Father Within in the Inward Path of traditional religions. The old and the new can then better harmonize in centering on Ordered Evolution within the natural world.