Theological materialism religiously bonds with the ongoing advances in human knowledge

I agree with Monika Jablonska when she says that traditional Western values and morals are at the crossroads, and that our country faces social and individual disintegration. And I agree with Russell Kirk when he says that “it has seemed far more probable that we are stumbling into a new Dark Age, inhumane, merciless, a totalist political domination in which the life of spirit and the inquiring intellect will be denounced, harassed, and propagandized against...”

I also agree with Jablonska that we need to “restore that vital relation between religion and culture which has existed at every age and on every level of human development.” But I disagree with Christopher Dawson when he writes that “there is an absolute limit to the progress than can be achieved by the perfectionment of scientific techniques detached from spiritual aims and moral values.” I believe we need to restore that vital relation between religion and culture with a religion of science based in a theological materialism which affirms ascending levels of Godhood reached through material evolution, with religion and culture devoted to that evolutionary process. Nothing less is worthy of religiously bonding with the ongoing advances in human knowledge.

The evolutionary conservatism of theological materialism counters both the stagnation of traditional conservatism and the nihilism of modern thinking. The heart of religion and conservatism should first contain the sacred material upward evolution to ascending levels of Godhood, as well as the conservative effort to conserve the best of the past.