Sunday 10 December 2006

Pic of the day: Biological evolution can be a scary enough topic. Spiritual evolution is likely to scare away whatever readers I may have left.

Wasted writing

For today I wrote a long gray entry, but decided not to use it. It was about evolutionary enlightenment, the idea that enlightenment is not something that you achieve and then spend your days in the world without any further purpose here. Rather, evolutionary enlightenment implies that after you have become enlightened, your real life begins, working for a higher purpose.

I started to mix in the Christian religion, which is not so strange. We have almost exactly the same thing there. Most congregations have the official policy that you just have to be saved, and the rest is mostly waiting to go to Heaven, although of course it would be best to be nice, for the greater glory of God. Then again you have a minority of Christians who claim that forgiveness is only the beginning, and that we have not just an obligation but (if all is right with us) an inner drive to continue growing in God.

I see the two as eerily similar, to the point where I think one of them is probably a copy of the other.

To me there is no conflict between Christianity and evolution. Evolution is the will of God, and Christianity was meant to be the spearhead of the evolution of consciousness. But of course, there is no point in telling people that. Those who believe in evolution, insist that God is just a Bronze Age fantasy. Those who believe in God, insist that evolution is a lie by Satan to lead people astray. There are a few exceptions, people who have vaguely similar ideas as I, but they are almost certainly not reading my journal.

Or if they are, they are certainly not telling.