Monday, September 25, 2017
Real religion seeking real Godhood by way of real material evolution
We evolve in the material world to
supermaterial Godhood. Old nature can join evolutionized religion,
not as the Deism of the Enlightenment which was really atheistic, and
not as religion taken over by political ideology, but as real
religion seeking real Godhood by way of real material evolution.
I would say the Enlightenment was 50
percent right in affirming science, and traditional religion was 50
percent right in affirming religion, but the Enlightenment was 50
percent wrong in smearing religion, and religion was 50 percent wrong
in smearing science.
It is true that attempts were made to
synthesizes these things. The Enlightenment affirmed Deism with God
defined as nature, and religion tried bringing more rationalism into
religion, but they really didn't like each other much, and that
dislike grew worse as science advanced and religion faded.
Theological materialism retains
religion and Godhood but religion and Godhood are reformed by
evolutionized religion, philosophy and politics, which is different
from the Teilhard de Chardin project to evolutionize religion while
retaining an entirely non-material, spiritual, trinitarian God.
We don't look to experience merely the
symbolic God Within the human brain or heart, as traditional
religion has done---although this is retained in the Inward
Path---the Twofold Path seeks to save religion not destroy religion.
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