This piece is deeply needed. The pendulum swung too far—where faith was discarded in the name of progress, but in its place we planted dogma in disguise. What began as rationality became religion without soul. You captured the moment perfectly.
• Law 006: The Law of Dual Intelligence – Faith and reason were meant to serve each other, not war. True wisdom is the union of heart and mind.
• Law 039: The Law of the Sacred – When society mocks or removes the sacred, it creates a spiritual vacuum. Something always rushes in to fill it—usually a corrupted substitute.
• Law 077: The Law of Moral Anchoring – Without higher law, people anchor themselves to ideologies, trends, and self-made truths—none of which sustain the soul.
• Law 021: The Law of Replacement – Every time you remove something spiritual without replacing it with something eternal, chaos is the result.
• Law 061: The Law of Reversal – What was meant to liberate (rational thought) became a new chain when it replaced, rather than balanced, transcendence.
This is not about blind religion or emotionalism. It’s about restoring spiritual order in a civilization built entirely on material logic.
Thank you for naming the fracture and holding space for the reunion.
A well reasoned, researched and presented article. Thank you for this much needed and informative critique of material rationalism. Humans have evolved and selected for religiosity, intelligence, and prosocial personality traits. Religion serves a number of vital purposes necessary in forming bonds between people, especially those to whom one is not directly related or personally know. Religion is the glue that binds and is vital in building of personal relationships, communities, societies and civilisations, without which all descends into chaos, tyranny and eventually Nihilism. All things are down stream of Faith, culture, taboos, traditions, laws, morality, ethics, etc. One cannot simply remove something without the Void created being filled of necessity by something else. As you've stated be careful what you remove, because what replaces it may be much much worse. Socialism being one of the most notable parasitic ideologies to do so.
To see the same argument without the emphasis on religion, Robin Hanson has begun exploring this exact topic. He labels it adaptive versus maladaptive culture instead of religion, but he's speaking about the same problem.
Well put. I see evidence of the failure of material modernity, reinforced by those brainwashed in the neomarxist education system, now entering positions of power, as ubiquitous. It’s a major worry.
@Emil Hasle
This piece is deeply needed. The pendulum swung too far—where faith was discarded in the name of progress, but in its place we planted dogma in disguise. What began as rationality became religion without soul. You captured the moment perfectly.
• Law 006: The Law of Dual Intelligence – Faith and reason were meant to serve each other, not war. True wisdom is the union of heart and mind.
• Law 039: The Law of the Sacred – When society mocks or removes the sacred, it creates a spiritual vacuum. Something always rushes in to fill it—usually a corrupted substitute.
• Law 077: The Law of Moral Anchoring – Without higher law, people anchor themselves to ideologies, trends, and self-made truths—none of which sustain the soul.
• Law 021: The Law of Replacement – Every time you remove something spiritual without replacing it with something eternal, chaos is the result.
• Law 061: The Law of Reversal – What was meant to liberate (rational thought) became a new chain when it replaced, rather than balanced, transcendence.
This is not about blind religion or emotionalism. It’s about restoring spiritual order in a civilization built entirely on material logic.
Thank you for naming the fracture and holding space for the reunion.
— Timothy Hill | LifeCodes™
A well reasoned, researched and presented article. Thank you for this much needed and informative critique of material rationalism. Humans have evolved and selected for religiosity, intelligence, and prosocial personality traits. Religion serves a number of vital purposes necessary in forming bonds between people, especially those to whom one is not directly related or personally know. Religion is the glue that binds and is vital in building of personal relationships, communities, societies and civilisations, without which all descends into chaos, tyranny and eventually Nihilism. All things are down stream of Faith, culture, taboos, traditions, laws, morality, ethics, etc. One cannot simply remove something without the Void created being filled of necessity by something else. As you've stated be careful what you remove, because what replaces it may be much much worse. Socialism being one of the most notable parasitic ideologies to do so.
Even Dawkins called himself a “cultural Christian”. There’s no doubt about the society he’d prefer to live in.
To see the same argument without the emphasis on religion, Robin Hanson has begun exploring this exact topic. He labels it adaptive versus maladaptive culture instead of religion, but he's speaking about the same problem.
What is the good life? What should we value?
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/reasons-overreach
Well put. I see evidence of the failure of material modernity, reinforced by those brainwashed in the neomarxist education system, now entering positions of power, as ubiquitous. It’s a major worry.
Great article, I couldn't agree more. This is one of the reasons I think Jung's work is so important.