Sunday, February 01, 2015

How to avoid Nietzsche's radicalism and affirm materialism in religion


Nietzsche was too radical, he jumped from the traditional spiritualism and celibacy of religion to the affirmation of amoral material desire, especially with his goalless will-to-power. Such a radical jump can be considered unrealistic when one absorbs the more realistic evolutionary rather than revolutionary ideas of change in conservatives like Burke and Kirk.

Philosophical or ascetic priests tried to bring about a Great Spiritual Blockade of material desires, which was designed to aid in the ascetic experience of the God or Father Within. This did not work well among the population, it worked best in monasteries ( although it also led to homosexuality among the priests.) So the “sins” of materialism remained, as they well might.

The Twofold Path is the less radical more evolutionary approach to religion, the Involutionary Inward Path to the God Within is retained as the first glimpse or human experience of God but it is now transformed by affirming and not blocking the material desires of evolution which lead toward real Godhood in the Evolutionary Outward Path.

Material desires are not defined as the “free,” radical, amorality of Nietzsche's goalless will-to-power, material desires are subsumed in the evolutionary ethics of material and supermaterial evolution leading toward Godhood in the Evolutionary Outward Path.

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