Tuesday, June 02, 2020

A rioting country needs to be guided by religious teachings, but which religious teachings?


As I watch our country torn apart by racial riots my thought is that a country needs to be guided by religious teachings. But which religious teachings? Which God?

The fatal error of most religions comes from demeaning the material world, which stems from making Godhood non-material and entirely spiritual. The elite of most religions reject the material world and reject bodily desires so that may dwell in the bodily bliss that results from that rejection, which they wrongly think is spiritual.

Theological materialism defines Godhood as evolved to in the material and supermaterial world, which brings religion back to the real world and the biological origin of social behavior, along with the sociobiological view of human nature.

"The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact...” Edward O. Wilson

Theological materialism asserts that morality has the ultimate function of culturally aiding life in evolving to ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood, which is also the zenith of success in survival and reproduction.

Given the biological origin of human nature, which is kin and ethnic centered, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all distinctive groups seems like the best instinctive, moral, and rational bio-political choice, where groups can maintain, theocracies, or the separation of church and state, or whatever, protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism.

I believe we humans will eventually move in the direction of theological materialism to save ourselves, if we can survive that long.

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