Reestablishing religion in nature

In basic terms, the value of an action is judged by its biological value and its evolutionary value. Becoming conscious of these unfree actions then brings the free choices we have, but the choices are limited by biology and evolution. Some think this is too “reductionist” but it is often the idea that upsets people and not the reduction.

Morality became “denaturalized,” as Nietzsche called it, from biology and evolution. Naturalizing morality leads to philosophical naturalism. But then moving beyond philosophical naturalism we arrive at theological materialism, which is the naturalistic way for religion to return to the real world from which it has been receding.

Theological materialism brings forward the basic values of biology and evolution in the sacred evolution of life to Godhood. It is not Nietzsche's will-to-power, it is the will-to Godhood, or more formally the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood in nature that we affirm, which has driven life from the beginning of the cosmos to seek to survive, unceasingly, no matter what the obstacles, always shaped by the outside forces of selection and evolution, seeking ultimately, inherently, the zenith of success in survival and reproduction, which is eternal representation, or as near to it as possible, which is Godhood.

Unlike Nietzsche's will-to-power, the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood is related positively to the revealed religions, that is, to the Inward God, or the Inward Father-Within of the revealed religions; this was the first symbolic-experience of the real Godhood which can be reached through material and supermaterial evolution. Retaining the old in the new is evolutionary, not revolutionary, it is both conservative and progressive. Ordered Evolution is affirmed, not anarchism or rootless modernism. This is how we reestablish religion in nature.