Forty percent of chemists/physicists/astronomers
have a religious affiliation
but forty percent of Americans believe
science and religion are incompatible/in conflict
science is about objective truth about Nature
but Spirit first of all goes out of itself as Nature
so Nature is objective Spirit/
unselfconscious Spirit/slumbering Spirit
Plato’s “visible/sensible God”
and Nature is a dynamic god
not an inert background for Mind
as the ancient Egyptians thought
to Dietrich Bonhoeffer “religion”
is the “garment of Christianity”
its outward form not its essence
and when essence is lost
religious institutions like churches die
and are reborn as something new
death and rebirth is a pattern
in all major religions:
life/death/resurrection/reincarnation
the Moon is the great symbol of this –
religion is about symbolism
the source of meaning
and humans by Nature are meaning-seekers:
even so-called “primitive” tribes
believe the Moon
is the abode of souls
awaiting reincarnation
and the Moon expands with souls as it waxes
and releases souls as it wanes
the Moon dies/resurrects/
reincarnates as something new
it may not be a scientific fact
science is all about facts
but the Moon-belief
is objectively and truly meaningful
and soul-satisfying.
Intelligent Christian Spirituality 