A deep devaluation of
human beings and human nature exists in the way traditional
religion's tell us that the higher we go the more we become like the
angels who are said to be non-material, spiritual, purely
intellectual beings, without the gross material human nature.
Why does traditional
religion think that higher beings must be non-material, spiritual,
purely intellectual beings? Nietzsche probably came the closest to
answering this question in saying that the priests and ascetics of
traditional religion gained power and control by disparaging materialism and
blocking the will to power of their followers, even if some of them
were unaware that they were doing it.
This degrading of human
beings and human nature was especially misleading and damaging
because it set up a great spiritual blockade against the real path of
material evolution to real supermaterial Godhood.
While the ethical bonding
and social order of traditional religion are important, the control
method they use of degrading human beings and human nature, and even
making it sacred to block the real path of material evolution to real
supermaterial Godhood, was and is fatally and metaphysically wrong.
Theological materialism
seeks to set this right so we can get on the sacred religious path of
material evolution to real Godhood.
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