“HOW THE CHURCH COULD HAVE WON BUT FAILED” We can’t discard myth and ritual. Nee

“HOW THE CHURCH COULD HAVE WON BUT FAILED”

We can’t discard myth and ritual.

Needs: Child > Youth > Young Adult > Mother > Warrior > Priest > Judge > King.

Fulfillment of Needs: Mythology> Theology > Philosophy (reason) > Empiricism (evidence) > Science (testimony) > Computational (description).

Graceful increase in precision with graceful increase in knowledge and ability.

It’s only a question of whether we create religions or reform religions to increasingly correspond to reality. The scholastics pretty much had it.

Had the church taken the opposite reaction to darwin it would have ‘won history’.

All they had to say was ‘look at our gradual evolution of natural law throughout history – Aquinas was right, the scholastics were right, … God is the universe, gods laws are the law of the universe, and the natural law is god’s law. So hey, we were right!

Etc. Easy win. Biggest screw-up in theological history.

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