Sunday, July 08, 2018

All we need is the affirmation of ongoing evolution from the frogs to the Gods


Religion and philosophy gradually moved away from nature and the chthonic gods of the underworld. The gods of the revealed religions are spiritual and not of the material world. Whereas science grew by bringing back the study of nature, but nature without religion and without the chthonic gods.

Nature is not as disorderly, irrational and diabolical as the chthonic gods of the underworld religions, but nature also does not eliminate the gods as science has done. Nature and the material world evolve to supermaterial Godhood in accord with the natural drives of life to survival and reproductive success.

The revealed religions feared nature, but so did the earlier chthonic religions. Both saw the material world and nature as disorderly, irrational and diabolical. So it was not understanding or misunderstanding nature that led to the religious fear of nature, as well as leading to the creation of gods that were beyond the reach of "evil" nature.

When religion and Godhood are rejected they cannot be legitimately replaced by irrational, chaotic, chthonic gods, or by atheistic science. We also don't require tragic art/religion to reconcile the rational and the irrational, the individual and society. All we need is the affirmation of ongoing evolution from the frogs to the Gods.

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