Saturday, January 7, 2012

Spiritual Evolution vs Material Decline


It is said, by Darwinian evolutionists, that the brain is a tool of our sex organs and our whole purpose in this round-wet-sphere is to reproduce ourselves. Once we have accomplished that, we can go happily, to our graves (or unhappily for all it matters). We are done after that. I suppose this means something to some and gives life more meaning than many of us have found in the latter-half of the twentieth-century industrial economy. I can also pause when I think geneticists have found that well over two-thirds of the gene-pool in Asia can count Genghis Khan as an ancestor. From what I understand of history, Genghis Khan was not of the highest moral standard by any estimation. If ever there would be an example of materialistic success… there it is for ya!

Spiritual success is another matter altogether. Most spiritual traditions affirm the importance of family values; however, the comparison with the values of materialism often ends there. Spiritual evolution involves a similar paradigm but it is based on some principles… some values that go beyond personal selfish ends. As we have learned by the example of Stalinism, state sponsored capitalism (the state is a tool of the economy), and state sponsored socialism (fascism); i.e., any society based entirely on material values eventually grinds itself down to the nub through short lived prosperity via conquest into a poverty of spirit (social-Darwinism) that precedes material destitution.


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