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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