Religion and philosophy have tended to prefer ideas to things

It sometimes seems like religion and philosophy find our human senses biased because they don't like the reality the senses see, or they want to try to change reality to benefit themselves.

An imaginary world of religion was followed by the imaginary world of philosophy. There is the real world, and there is the imaginary world of disputes over “reality,” which often become games and puzzles for philosophical nerds who seem to prefer puzzles to real life.

Life is practical, even life evolving to higher life and Godhood is practical and natural. Dreamy abstractions often confuse reality. We see enough of reality for our purposes, and we will see more of reality when we evolve higher consciousness, intelligence and beauty. That is the position of theological materialism.

When religion and philosophy attach themselves to the evolution of material life to supermaterial Godhood then they will be more in harmony with nature and reality. Sociobiologists and geneticists will be considered as socially valuable as theologians and philosophers.