The positive way of ending the pain that comes from desiring is to attain the desire, the negative way is asceticism

The goal of the highest religious gurus and ascetics is "liberation" by way of attaining a superconsciousness of Abstract reality which contains no desire and no feeling but "dwells for eternity in unbroken contemplation." Ridding life of the desires of life means attaining the blissful state from a lack of the suffering and pain that comes from desiring material things.

What could be more negative than that worldview? The positive way of ending the pain that comes from desiring is to attain the desire, the negative way is asceticism. But those who can attain all their desires are probably as rare as those who attain the state of no-desires.

This does not mean that religion or Godhood are rejected. It means that real Godhood is understood as attained by way of the evolution of material life to supermaterial Godhood. Blocking all the desires of life won't get you to real Godhood, although like Buddha and few other ascetics, you may dwell in an entirely negative abstract reality that resembles death more than life.

The philosophy of theological materialism affirms life evolving toward supreme success in survival and reproduction, which defines a Godhood fulfilling the most sacred desires, not killing them. Desires do return, but that is life on the evolutionary path to Godhood, not death,