Of Gods and faiths
Nietzsche proclaimed that God had died a 100 years ago. While it seems to be true for the old, traditional religions, it couldn't be more false for religion as a whole.
Man is a religious being by nature, we literally have a segment of the brain called the temporal lobe that is responsible for spiritual sentiments. Religion at its core is not about worshipping some invisible being in the sky and believing in magic, but rather its a lens through which you see the world.
Modern liberalism is very much a religion. Its followers are as fervent as the Christians of old. They have their own saints(MLK, Margaret Sangner, Karl Marx), their own version of the devil(White men), their own sacred cows(Blacks, gays, trannies), their own idea of an end of history( Global monoracial government) and their own means of showing committment to this faith.
Like any religion it also has enforcement mechanisms. If you commit blasphemy against it, you will be jailed for hate speech, censored, deplatformed, fired from your jobs and cut off from amenities like Payment processors and airlines.
Communism is similarly religious, the zeal of the communist lunatic no less than the zeal of a Christian or Muslim lunatic in the middle ages.
And indeed, with time this religiosity will increase. Peopel who are religious have higher birth rates, two to three times higher than the secular, even when accounting for race, income and class.
Classical religions like Islam, Christianity and Hinduism will die off but the tendency towards religiosity will increase. The people of the future will have a greater instinctive proclivity towards religious devotion to ideologies and political systems.
A good example are the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe. Over millennia the less religious Jews converted and blended away into the white populations, leaving behind increasingly fanatical and zealous populations. Entering the modern age, the Jews have largely left behind Yaweh and the Talmud, however their religious nature has remained.
Instead this religious zeal has been channeled into Godless religions like Communism and Liberalism.
The same fate will befall most of the current religions of the world. These faiths formed and existed in a pre-technological society. They had support structures like Monarchy and aristocracy to hold them up. They were sufficient to answer the questions of their times.
In the future this will not be the case. Already we can see that in most of the world, the true state religion is liberal capitalism. Even in Islamic countries, secular law will take precedence over Islamic law, meaning that it enjoys greater legitimacy. Capitalism and globalism will eventually wipe out the old faiths.
They can no longer answer the pressing issues of our time. What answer can the Abrahamic faiths give to the problems of automation, dysgenics, overpopulation, corporate communism and globalism? None really.
Christianity has all but merged with liberalism, Islam will eventually be crushed between the pincers of Western liberalism and Chinese technocracy. Hinduism and Buddhism are on their way out as well.
However the religious feeling itself will not go away but rather due to selective breeding, will only increase. This sentiment will be channeled towards new religions that will form in response to the new technological age. Technology is one of the main engines of history and the future religions will be formed around opposition or acquiesence to it.
The New Faiths
I'm not prophet, nor am I some supercomputer that can calculate the future. However, this is my view of how the spirituality of the future will look like. There will be primarily four types of faith.
Liberal technocracy
This is the dominant religion of our time and is the religion of the elites. It will most likely remain so into the far future. In response to the mass unemployment, resource shortages and dysgenics of the future, the elite's response will be to promote a more messianic form of liberalism.
One that promises to solve the human condition via technology. The promise will be that through technology like genetic engineering, automation and mind-computer interface, most problems of mankind will be solved.
There will be no race, no nation, caste or history, all will be absorbed into the monoracial, monocultural, liberal utopia. The supreme goal of man is to consume, indulge his material needs and pleasures and keep the liberal system running.
Everyone will be happy consumers in the global, capitalist system and will be free to indulge whatever vice they desire, so long as it doesn't violate the fundamental liberal axiom of equality.
The escathon or end days of this religion, will be a scenario where man has merged with machines and uploaded his consciousness into cyberspace. Their aim will be the eventual end of man.
Primitivism
A lot of people will seek a return to primitive, pre industrial lifestyles, when faced with the technological hellscape of the future. Immense inequality, urban sprawl, mass surveillance, crime, unemployment, pollution and the never ending rat race to the bottom will spiritually exhaust a large portion of the population.
They will seek a return to a more primite, pre-technology era. They will seek the end of industrial civilization and the return to a more primitive, agricultural society. Coming to the conclusion that technology domisticates man and strips him of his purpose and his lust for life, these people will eschew technology for primite life in the wildlands.
The aim will be to return man to a more natural mode of being. A lot like the Amish are now today.
While this religion will be in opposition to liberalism, the elite will tolerate it for the most part. Because it does not represent a true threat to their military and political power. Furthermore, this serves as a safety valve that funnels dangerous, malcontent elements of society towards more benign roads.
Furthermore, the elites can defeat these people at any time. As they mostly reject technology, they won't be able to stand up to the mass machine armies of liberalism
They will have a more cyclical view of history, with no end day in mind.
The obliteration of the self
This will be a form of nihilism and death worship. A vast segment of the population in the future will sink into a permanent state of depression and hopelessness. Lacking the genetic traits needed for success or the proper heritage, these people are stuck in a never ending rat race.
Eventually a lot of the population will simply give up on hopes of a better future. Inequality, ever decreasing life standards, ever dwindling resources, ever decreasing freedoms...these things are here to stay. Things get worse and then....they get even more worse.
Devoid of purpose or spiritual mission, man becomes aimless and restless. In a materialistic world, with no higher meaning than consumption and hedonism, these people will suffer from profound spiritual illness.
We see a current day manifestation of this phenomena in the form of anarchists, Goths, drug addicts and the ISIS jihadi. There's no greater purpose to them other than engaging in internal and external destruction. Its their revenge on society. Its pure nihilism and mindless hate made flesh.
This will eventually give rise to various cults centered around worshipping Satan, self mutiliation, torture, ritual murder, nihilistic terrorism and the destruction of society at large. There's no greater aim to them, no end of history or salvation narratives. Its simply to harm society and those they deem better off.
The elite will try to pacify them with drugs, degeneracy and an ever stringent police state. They will represent a greater threat to the system than primitivists. Their terrorism and malevolence will threaten actual harm to the global, capitalist order. However their scattered, divided and schizophrenic nature will ensure that they never pose an existential threat to the sytem.
Freedom under God
This will be the real opposition to the elite. A religion that renounces materialism and seeks to give meaning to the human condition through a connection to the divine. It will emphasize a return to natural law, to prioritze beauty over pragmatism, for faith over matter.
There will be an adherence to a supernatural being, a higher calling. Be it in the mold of Plato's cosmic mind or an understanding that the Universe itself is molded with consciousness.
The understanding is that man is a spiritual being and there is higher purpose than just materialism and egotistic hedonism. That we each carry within ourselves a spark of the divine and there is greater purpose to life. There are greater things than the individual, such as dharma, beauty, nation and family.
The aim of this religion will be to overthrow liberalism, capitaism, democracy, globalism and modernity itself and return to natural law.
Instead of outright rejecting technology, this religion's view would be comandeer it. To steer technology towards goals to serve a higher purpose such as beauty, exploration of space and the preservation of nation, God and family.
This religion will be persecuted viciously by the Liberal-Capitalist elite, for it represents an organized and direct ideological threat to their existence and privilege.
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