Sunday, June 26, 2016
Yes, the suicide of the West can be stopped
Conservatives say that the suicide of
the West is the result of having rejected all-encompassing
Christianity and not successfully replacing it with modern
liberalism, which is a secular form of Christianity lacking the deep
satisfactions that comes from deeper religion, and therefore the only
way to stop the suicide of the West is to go back to Christianity.
Religion in general and Christianity in
particular have been dying in the West since the medieval revival of
ancient Greek classicism and later the rise of science. It has been a slower death mainly due to brilliant
philosophical defenders of religion, like Saint Thomas Aquinas, and
less brilliant but very effective fundamentalist revivals of religion
and Christianity.
The slow death of the West has speeded
up following World War Two and the rise of cultural Marxism, which
was designed mainly to destroy Western religious morals and values,
with great success as we now see in the willing suicide of the West,
which has been unwilling to defend its borders from huge numbers of hostile
migrants, or from nationally destructive globalism.
So the fatal question is: can the
suicide of the West be stopped? I do not think that a restoration of traditional
Christianity or an increase in the scientific worldview can stop the
suicide of the West. I believe a comprehensive worldview, philosophy,
and religion can be affirmed which does not reject religion or reject
Christianity, and does not reject science, but synthesizes and transforms them.
Many elements of classically
philosophy, traditional religion and modern science are synthesized
in Theological Materialism. The material world is not rejected or
begrudgingly accepted as in traditional religion and philosophy
(Plato made a God of non-material ideas), and religion is not
scientifically rejected. The old God or absolute reason of religion
and philosophy was first inwardly seen or experienced
symbolically---after much ascetic discipline blocking the material. But in theological
materialism the material world is seen as the only means to evolve to
real supermaterial Godhood.
The suicide of the West can be stopped
by stopping the suicide of materialism and seeing the material world
as the sacred means to evolve to supermaterial Godhood. The old God
is retained but transformed in the Involutionary and Evolutionary
Twofold Path. And science, politics
and culture are directly involved with religion in helping to find
ways to guide evolution toward Godhood.
Yes, the suicide of the West
can be stopped.
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