Sunday, February 23, 2014

How theological materialism makes Christianity become the solution to the suicide of the West and not part of the problem


In its most sacred valuations, the Church turns its back on the material world and seeks the God Within, or the Father Within, which can only be reached through non-attachment or blocking material desires and passions in the material world. Given the strong and essential drives of human nature, the institutions of the Church, which grew up long after the martyrdom of Jesus Christ, often made valiant and even brilliant attempts to rationalize living in the world (think of Aquinas), but the sacred base of complete non-attachment to reproduction, political philosophy, etc.,  is the central message of Jesus Christ, which is not unlike Buddha's message to attain nirvana---and this is also seen at the most sacred base of all the revealed religions.

When the world is religiously forsaken by human beings in its most sacred religious valuations the world declines. A reaffirmation of this sacred non-attachment by the Church is not the solution to the suicide of the West, it is part of the problem. Is the solution to reject the Church, as so many have done? The solution is to affirm the Twofold Path in which the Evolutionary Outward Path fulfills and transforms the Involutionary Inward Path to the Father Within, which was a symbolic-experience of the Godhood reached by evolving in the material world to supermaterial Godhood. This requires sociobiological involvement and engagement with the world. This is an affirmation of theological materialism, this is not a call to destroy the law and the prophets but to fulfill them---this is evolution not revolution.

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