Spirit is not something that goes on in time forever
but rather is a Timeless Moment, an Eternal Now
a Pure Present that never ends
and is timeless yet holds all time in its hands
across the aeons, the Holy Spirit
who John MacQuarrie refers to as “Unitive Being”
has been the principle linking the macro and micro –
the Cosmic Christ and Jesus of Nazareth
Karl Marx would criticize the above as just religious philosophy
since he criticized philosophers as a group
that just interprets the world but never changes it
changing the world takes courage and persistence
which is why boys who want to become men
must go through rituals of initiation
be separated from the Mother
experience an ordeal of pain such as circumcision
in order to be admitted
into the Secret/Sacred Society of Men
girls on the other hand are naturally initiated
into the Secret/Sacred Society of Women
through the pain of childbirth
philosophy may seem useless to some
but Integral Theory gets its hands dirty with Earth
by linking the three main schools of environmental ethics:
– the bioequality school: all creatures have equal value
– the animal rights/Whiteheadian school: not all creatures
have equal intrinsic value – there exists a hierarchy of values
– the stewardship school: those with a higher intrinsic value
have greater responsibility for taking care of all creatures
but right-wing Christians would think this was too “communal”
too close to “communism” – acting like a community of care
so, our biggest threat comes not from secular atheists
but from fundamentalists, Protestant or Catholic
whose absolute certainty about their beliefs
based on their belief in the infallibility of scripture or the pope
has made them into a Secret Society of Religious Atheists
so secret they don’t realize what they have done
and what they have become
because they have stripped God of all mystery.
Intelligent Christian Spirituality 