The estrangement of intellectuals from religion and the return

The estrangement of intellectuals from religion didn't stop many of them from seeking religion in the form of science, communism or fascism, although most of them were not aware of seeking a religious worldview. Life without religious purpose turned out to be without meaning and nihilistic. Marxism and National Socialism were complete worldviews from cradle to grave and beyond to future utopias. But many people just accepted a meaningless world and became unhappy hedonists pursuing modern technology etc.

The biological origin of social behavior as studied by evolutionary sociobiology is the key to the religious and philosophical worldview of theological materialism which, unlike the “ism” mentioned above, does not reject religion. Theological materialism is more or less placed in the worldview of philosophical naturalism with the difference being that philosophical naturalism is generally irreligious, and theological materialism is religious in seeing Godhood as the goal of material evolution, first mirrored in the Father-Within of traditional religion.

We can indeed immanentize the eschaton, attain Godhood directly within nature and evolution, when we affirm that evolution moves inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms, all the way to Godhood.

Affirming the biological origin of social behavior is an antidote to the abstractions not only of 19^th and 20^th century ideologies but to conflicting religious claims of moral superiority. This does not lead to radical revolution as the 19^th and 20^th century ideologies and as old religions often did, it leads to better understanding the reality of human nature living and competing in the world.

The reality is that identity politics demonstrates cultures being pulled back by the biological and genetic leash of real human nature which remains genetically and biologically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection. So race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation tend to eventually conform to the human nature reflected in identity politics.

The rise of cultural Marxism (demanding equality for the unequal), radical feminism (demanding biologically unnatural roles for women), homosexuality (demanding biologically unnatural sexual life styles) and postmodern relativism (demanding a biologically unnatural relativity of values) have led to biologically and culturally diseased societies.

The obvious solution to the diversity of bio-cultural identities in the world, each with its own natural urge to perpetuate itself and establish its own culture, is not to try to jam everyone together in the same territory or to demand a creed of equality or multiculturalism, but to establish ethnostates for all distinctive groups and then protect them from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and money grubbers, by a defensive federalism. For example, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established, legally, in the United States adapted from our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Then we can better get on with the sacred mission of materially and super-materially evolving to ascending levels of real Godhood.