Conservatism has been like a tragic hero blind to the weakness that is destroying it

I always hesitate to be critical of religious conservatives because they are some of the best conservatives we have, especially those who work at journals like the "American Conservative" and "Chronicles." Religious traditions line up very closely with the real sociobiological view of man as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

The problem comes from believing that crime and disorder in the world come from "fallen human nature," and that the sense of right and wrong are built into the "incarnate soul," and that the human will is "depraved." The sense of right and wrong was built into the genes. Human morality derived from the altruism of group-selection which gradually developed because it was more successful than individual selfishness in survival and reproduction. Crime and disorder in human beings comes from a combination of biology and culture.

Yes, we can have social conditioning against real human nature, as in the Soviet Union, and now with cultural Marxism in the West, but that doesn't last long and humans always return to the values and morality seen in traditional religion and affirmed by the science of sociobiology.

We need religion to conserve and sacralize our traditions, but we also need futuristic religion related to the material evolution to real supermaterial Godhood in the natural world. Our religious values and morality need to come from theological materialism not spiritualism. If you tell me that "Satan" made me say these things you not only insult me but you hurt the conservative cause. Conservatism has been like a tragic hero blind to the weakness that is destroying it.