Thursday, November 01, 2018
Is the spiritual or material view of the world reductionist?
Religious philosophers have been
telling us for centuries that materialism is a dismal reductionist
view of the world. Although reductionism can be a good thing, it
is they who are reductionist in defining God as a spiritual and
non-material God rather than the real, ordered, intelligible and
material/supermaterial Godhood, evolved to in the material and supermaterial world,
which is not a "dismal" world but a lucid and wonderful
world.
The Godhood evolved to in the natural
material world does not need to reject or block the material world or
material desires, but it needs to apply real, ordered, intelligible, instincts and thinking to the path to Godhood, which includes rather than
rejects science---such as the evolutionary sciences.
The theological materialist view of
religion can even affirm conservatism in retaining traditional
religion and Godhood while transforming it: the Inward Path to the "spiritual" God-Within featured in traditional religion
leads to the Outward Path of material evolution to the supermaterial being, or
beings, of real Godhood.
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