How the Death of God Was Not Necessary

Nietzsche wanted to bring religion and philosophy down from the clouds, but he didn’t need to kill them in the process, because the naturalization of values which he sought leads to Godhood in natural and supermaterial evolution. Traditional religion can even be retained, as the Inward God, and the Being of philosophy are retained but transformed in the Outward Godhood reached by successful evolution.

Religion and philosophy moved too fast away from the animal---they even made their God the opposite of the animal, with no material foundation. Why? The unconscious motive for wanting to escape the animal might have been the sacred activation within life to evolve beyond man to Godhood. But our minds, our senses, are tied to our physiology, we have not escaped the animal, we have not escaped real life, which seems to have been the consequence of this hatred of life, this hatred of the prerequisites of life, seen in so much of religion and philosophy, which rightly angered Nietzsche.

When Godhood is seen as the zenith of evolving life, the zenith of material and supermaterial evolution, then religion and philosophy can return to the prerequisites of life and they do not need to be rejected, as Nietzsche and his post-modern followers did. We can retain many of the traditional things which were so painfully, and successfully, evolved in human history, and we can avoid the arrogance of radically trying to begin the world all over again. God, religion and philosophy didn't die, they were killed prematurely and unsuccessfully, but our understanding of them needs to be transformed.