I concur here with Jay. Ultimately philosophy leads back to some kind of God, an all-God, a Divinity in all things. You can’t get around it. Logically speaking the Atheistic position is untenable, and to accept it is to reject logic itself by eliminating the very base upon which logic and all ordered principles rest.
And no, one cannot have Telos without a thing that orders. Logic always leads back to Theism. Try, lay it all out logically for yourself. I already know the answer because I already tried.
Regardless, a shout out to Jay at the Soul of the East. And may men and women everywhere return to a just and humble Theism.
One of the most difficult things for moderns to apprehend is the seemingly counter-intuitive worldview of modified Platonism. This reorientation shifts our entire perspective on the outer, external world, rendering it again a sacred space infused with the Divine, as opposed to a brute, “material” realm dominated by chaos, entropy and death. Our contemporaries nonetheless prefer the latter grand narrative (and a depressing narrative it is), proclaiming that we in the other camp are “weak” for choosing older “fictions” like souls, angels and God. To be sure, the materialists and servants of delusion of brute “matter” have their own deity – the impersonal “Forces of Nature,” but we’ll set that aside for the moment.
It is crucial that the psyche undergo this repentance, metanoia in Greek, and reorienting, as the modern attitude is that of fallen man, who views his world as devoid of supernatural under the guise of “science.” While the scientific…
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