Theme: Civilization

THE PROBLEM AND FUTURE OF THAT THING WE CALL RELIGION.
Many of us, particularly those who are more empathic than systematizing, or those who are less able to endure the dark forces of competition, time, and ignorance, require a means of suppressing neuroticism and alienation, and obtaining the feeling of safety and calm in belonging in a group that signals inclusion and relative equality in some sort of ritual or festival. Religion evolved by repeating the primal thanks, feast, and celebration after the hunt, and the initiatic brotherhood of warriors, and the ritual of burial of the dead.

In response to the restoration of classical reason and evidence, producing the restoration of the european rate of cognitive evolution, and the subsequent sequence of cooperative revolutions, humans have been failed by their religions. They were too archaic to reform (other than christianity->secular humanism). Largely what we are experiencing consists of the search for the equivalent of a religion that isn’t false combined with the introduction of women into political decision making, the impersonal state usurpation of charity and responsibility, the capture of education by the marxist-to-woke cult, and the postwar opening of borders for economic utility that benefited only the State and financial sectors at the expense of the polity – destroying our ancestral senses of community.

While the Stoics discovered the optimum universal answer to religion, the National Socialists discovered the optimum particular answer, but then took it outside their borders and ended it at least for now. So we are deprived of nationalism and seduced by the alienation of globalism creating warfare as we were religious universalism that created warfare.

So we invested heavily in intellectual education, but our religions failed to reform and we haven’t yet restored heavy investment in emotional and psychological education, and we’ve all but abandoned physical education. Meaning our reformation of education is incomplete – opening the door for other false religions (marxism-postmodernism-feminism-woke) which are even more divisive than our previous generation of abrahamic religions and their competitiors.

So what reformed religion or equivalent can we agree to heavily invest in? We can’t make people believe in the supernatural – too many of us simply can’t do it any longer.

All religion consists of ritualization of payment of some sort of debt, because this provokes our social instinct to submission and non aggression – simply because social debt is the only non-harmful means of obtaining loyalty without force or deception.

Natural religion consists of national, ancestor, hero, and nature worship. Morality consists of Natural Law which is very close to human rights, but far more precise. We only *can* have one ambition that doesn’t drive us to extinction, and that is shared responsibiilty to overcome the laws of the universe by mastery of them and transcendence into the gods we imagined.

So we know the one non-false religion so to speak, but it’s difficult to achieve it without institutional advocacy and support.

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