The vital biological-evolutionary reality of man, religion, and Godhood

Spiritual religious moralists want us to believe that without the spiritual view of human nature we are merely “naked apes.” That sells us short, and is a nasty thing to do as well.

Yes, modern life is morally aimless without traditional religion, but the religious spiritual view of human nature is blocking us from evolving in the material world all the way to supermaterial Godhood, because their view of God is spiritual and not material and disparages the material world, so we remain naked apes.

Post-Christian philosophers have rejected the spiritual religious moralists but in its place they have found only meaninglessness and offered only a relativity of values and morals; they have even denied that there is a biologically derived human nature. So they will never do.

The Guenon/Evola-founded Traditionalist School, now represented by the Russian Alexander Dugin, isn't the answer either, it turns away from the modern world and rejects Western science in mystical or religious pronouncements about one spiritual tradition uniting them all. The real synthesis comes from including science in religion (Guillaume Faye's Archeofuturism does at least try to include modern science.) The real religious problem comes from the non-material spiritualism of both paganism and traditional religions, which now needs to take a secondary backseat to the vital biological-evolutionary reality of man, religion, and Godhood.

There is no first beginning and no final ending in the universe but we can evolve to an unending series of material/supermaterial Godhoods in the material and supermaterial world. This doesn't kill religion or Godhood, but it does require a transformation of religion and Godhood from the spiritual to the material and supermaterial. (see theological materialism) 

This means we will get our religious and scientific satisfactions not from dreaming about a union of the finite with a non-material infinite but from reaching different levels of Godhood by way of material evolution. This is the sacred task of future religion and science, which can take away our modern meaninglessness, the relativity of values and morals, and reject the stunted spiritual view of man as merely a naked ape.

It will require stout hearts and durable egos to bring this religious/scientific overview to people today. But it's well worth the effort because humans and civilizations never last long without realistic long-term religion.