Monday, March 23, 2020

How we can be optimistic in the face of moral and cultural rot


The conservatives were right about the moral and cultural rot in the West caused by the modern destruction of God and religion. While science and technology brought us wonderful life-saving and life-enhancing inventions it didn't stop the moral and cultural rot. And philosophy declared that along with the death of God and religion all morals and ethical values were relative and there is no absolute truth. 

So how can one be optimistic in the face of this human tragedy? By understanding that we can have Godhood and religion in harmony with science and philosophy. Theological materialism describes a naturalistic Godhood and a naturalistic religious philosophy that affirms the biological origin of social behavior and affirms materialism evolving to supermaterialism and ascending levels of Godhood.  

Theological materialism does not describe man's fate without God, as in standard materialism, we are not man-alone without God but man activated from within every cell of the body toward survival and reproductive success while being shaped by evolution from without, which leads ultimately to our material evolution to ascending levels of Godhood.  

Theological materialism does not lead to big brother materialism any more than religious spiritualism leads to big brother spiritualism. Theological materialism does not call for a dictatorial class of priests or scientists; priests can help guide the church in the upward evolution to Godhood, aided by science and the humanities, with the voluntary affirmation of the people.   

We can even be conservative and patriotic, grounded in religion, philosophy, and science, and affirming the constitutional separation of powers and states in the United States, slightly amended to save ourselves by becoming an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. Different ethnic groups within ethnostates can be what they actually are and what human nature actually is, kin and ethnic-centered, rejecting the various forms of ethnic supremacy and imperialism as unworkable and immoral.  

The sacred goal of life and sacred goal of theological materialism is to materially evolve toward supermaterial Godhood in the cosmos. That is how can we can be optimistic in the face of moral and cultural rot.

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