NO NOT QUITE: THE DEMAND FOR RELIGION VS THE WEST
–“The west tries to master nature. Its enemies try to master minds. The west is lost when they forget the mind is part of nature.”– DontCare
Interesting. I understand what you’re getting at, but: (
a) it’s mastery of agency of mind within the limits nature, vs submission to intuitions and emotions in narratives independent of nature..
(b) the difference originates in masculine (reals, political) vs feminine (feels, social) minds – when we are all somewhere on that distribution.
(c) where we are all different in our intellectual abilities.
(d) where we are all different in our age and experience.
(e) and where religiosity is the product of:
… (i) indocrination and
… (ii) dominance of feminine empathizing instead of masculine systematizing.
That’s the science.
In other words, we will always need the spectrum because humans are distributed along the spectrum. The west is best under trifuctionalism at providing wisdom literatures across that spectrum:
Mythology(anthropomorphism, integration),
… Theology(wisdom, authority obedience),
… … Philosophy(reason, justification, counsel),
… … … History(evidence, arithmetic, analogy),
… … … … Empiricism(correspondence, math, falsification),
… … … … … Science(testimony, calculus, survival.),
… … … … … … Operationalism(causality, constructive logic).
Every step we take forward in that list, causes us to reform the previous step, until all steps are in harmony differing only in the method of conducting the argument.
In other words we have failed to reform our religion as did Augustine to incorporate greek reason, Aquinas to give priority to science and reason in the material world. We had no Augustine or Aquinas in response to Darwin.
And so the worst possible religion – the reformation of judaism(outcast rebellion) and christianity (slave rebellion) into the marxist sequence took root: marxism, neo-marxism(cultural marxism), postmodernism(truth marxism), feminism(family marxism), libertarianism(middle class marxism), neoconservatism (upper class marxism), and race marxism(‘woke’).
The fault is the church for failing to reform. And it’s reasonable given that they had been losing for hundreds of years, and could not and did not learn from Augustine and therefore ‘claim victory’ that the church was right. instead they doubled down on dogma and supersition, and religion is almost gone from europe and heading to under 1/4 of the population in the USA.
Cheers
Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute
The Science of Cooperation
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