Buddha and Christ (and Schopenhauer)
seem to have viewed life as constant suffering relieved only when the
desires of the flesh could be successfully blocked. God or Godhood,
Nirvana and Heaven were defined as outside of time and change in a
non-material spiritual world. No wonder religion has gradually
declined---but it need not have.
I find no real distinction between the
thing-in-itself and material phenomenon. There is nothing outside of
material time and change, not even Godhood. Godhood is the zenith of
material and supermaterial evolution. This offers more hope to man
than the complete extinction of all that we define as life.
Bergson said, "The universe is a
machine for making gods." Theological materialism would agree
with that as being life-affirming and far more hopeful for the modern world and future worlds. It is also real.
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