A new theological unifying and integrative cultural force

Religion used to be a unifying and integrative cultural force, but since Nietzsche it has been increasingly overcome by various attempts to make other fields the new cultural force: art, poetry, continental philosophy, ideological politics, and most recently “social constructivism,” which is warmed-over Nietzsche in seeing all morals and values as relative to the people defining them. (see “The Crisis of the Modern University,” Modern Age, Summer 2014) None of these attempts were integrative or unifying enough to replace religion, although they usually thought they were, and they have become virtually useless as a true cultural force, other than in the secular sanctuaries of the universities, where feminist, queer, environmentalist and Marxist-babble now rules the humanities and influences those students who are not busy on their cell phones. Social constructivist's believe that they have no competition from empirical science because they actually consider the truths of empirical science merely as relative social constructions. The Media meanwhile seems to be the strongest cultural force going, and it is not unifying, it speaks the revolutionary language of cultural Marxism, dumbed down. This will never do.

Theological materialism is a unifying and integrative religious cultural force. It can unite religion, philosophy, science, art and politics in the sacred knowledge that we materially evolve on earth, and eventually out into the cosmos, toward supermaterial Godhood, while conservatively, with the Twofold Path, retaining the symbolic Inward God or Father Within experienced in traditional religion, but with the Inward God transformed by real Outward Godhood reached through ongoing evolution. All the fields and disciplines can aid in our sacred evolution. Ethnopluralism can be a political expression of our evolution, with a wide variety of evolving ethnic states, in harmony with real human nature, which remains kin-centered and group-selecting. But we need beyond-the-earth direction for man and society, otherwise we remain earth-centered and parochial. However, we need to keep our feet on the ground of material evolution to supermaterial Godhood, and avoid the big inherent weakness of traditional religion which, if we are honest, turned its back on material or supermaterial life (greatly exploited by its enemies), when it is material life that is the only path of our evolution to real Godhood, no matter how brilliantly traditional theologian's sought to somehow and reluctantly include material life with the non-material inward God.