Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Religion the day after tomorrow (from 2013)
A new/old
religion, a new worldview, a new philosophy and psychology rising,
with evolution as the common ground, is presented in the religion of
the projected Theoevolutionary Church and the Twofold Path, and the
philosophy of theological materialism, which does not take away the
old religions with a bland universalism, or take away nationalism, ethnostates, group
separateness and the uniqueness of each group. It is a world religion
based on the evolution of all groups, all races, all people, while
preserving ethnic distinctions and national identities. All the parts
are seen as independent yet part of the nobler whole, guided by
international religious-scientific centers (as Raymond Cattell
suggested) with the parts working together in a realistic cooperative
competition, since competition is healthy for evolution. Persuasion
rather than coercion is the method of this religious philosophy in
the world. We all can affirm the evolutionary mission, bringing
beauty and intelligence and character as evolution proceeds. Wisdom
is shared among the whole of planetary life, each contributes,
knowing they are part of the greater sacred mission of evolving to
ascending levels of Godhood in the cosmos.
How do we make
sacred our morals and values in the face of modern non-sacred moral and aesthetic values without
losing our extraordinarily successful technological and economic
development? How can we keep an anthropocentric culture working
within a theocentric culture? By affirming that the material world
evolves to Godhood, that is how. The traditional Inward God is a mirror of
Outward Godhood reached through material and supermaterial evolution: that affirms conservative not radical change.
Modernism and
traditionalism need not reject one another as they have done, we can
have a transformation of the sacred, not a rejection, the inward God
first seen in the great religions is realized in outward Godhood,
bringing the new into the old. The great division between the
spiritual and the temporal does not exist when the spiritual is seen
as supermaterial. Science can join religion.
The West can
lead the way in this because we have for centuries been bringing
Biblical faith together with Greek and Roman philosophy, whereas the
East has been religious traditionally without this sort of positive
Western tension, at least until the few short decades of Marxist
totalitarianism, and even that has a nondemocratic Asian ethos to it.
We can now add a third stage in the development of traditional religion, from
Neoplatonism to Catholic Scholasticism to the theological materialism
of the Theovolutionary Church.
Does this
present only an oddball flaky utopia? Can we do this? We are
capable of it. Perhaps I should say as Wilmot Robertson said about
the advent of ethnostates, the religion presented is not so much
about conditions as they exist today or tomorrow, but with the day
after tomorrow, when we will have reached the point where we will
choose between theological materialism and Theoevolutionary Church or
no religion and no philosophy at all.
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