Human nature is not inescapably sinful and fallen

It was nefarious of traditional religion to try to bond the people to traditional religion by declaring that human nature is inescapably sinful and fallen, to stop us from disobeying the edicts of traditional religion.

And what did they define as sinful and the fallen nature of man? They defined the very heart of real human nature as sinful, such as being too kin-centered, hierarchical, ethnocentric, or xenophobic, and they attacked group-selection (and ethnic selection) as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection---although they did affirm other basic traits of real human nature, like being gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, and marriage-making (reluctantly). And religious ascetics then made being free of all material desires the most virtuous life.

People were confined by religion to declaring virtuous slogans akin to the slogans of the French revolution, like “liberty, equality, fraternity,” which do not relate to real human nature.

But defining human nature as being inescapably sinful and fallen was not enough for them so they created the evil-of-evil, Satan, to stand for all the elements of human nature mentioned above which got in the way of their religious morals and values.

The religious philosophy of theological materialism does not pull those nasty metaphysical tricks on people. We can become ever-ascending gods by way of material and supermaterial evolution by applying and nurturing the very materialism that traditional religion calls inescapably sinful. Materially evolving toward ever-ascending levels of Godhood is the opposite of satanic, it is sacred life rising to its highest sacred purpose.

Even so, the Twofold Path in theological materialism respects the philosophy of conservatism and therefore retains the "non-material" Inward Path of traditional religion, but transforms it in the Outward Path of material and supermaterial evolution to real Godhood. The peak material experience of God reached inwardly by blocking material desires is seen as the first preliminary experience of Godhood now understood as reached by material and supermaterial evolution. The old testaments of traditional religions are retained but transformed in the new evolutionary religious commitments.