In the name of Holy Divinity. It is inevitable to anyone who is treading the path of righteousness not to ignore unrighteousness and not to be silent on the wailing alarms of disaster. As the poet says: “As you see the blind walking towards a bore; sin it is to ignore.” In this regard, even if nothing can be done to stop the errors, a mere mention of them is still useful. For it, at a bare minimum, lays down a plan and a direction for the next generations, and if situation does not allow us to correct all such errors today at some point in the future the situation might be ripe to do so. All the movements and changes in the world have their roots in books -- written few centuries back -- and all the great works began with words.
And this is the mood in which this article is written, and it is to explain severe errors taking place in the current world; the demise of spirituality and rise of greed and enmity everywhere. This is not written for personal profit or a case of mere intellectual curiosity, but as a warning to the world and a blueprint for our mission.
Various spiritual paths have spread on the face of the earth like meanders of golden dragons and like rivers flowing in the same sea (of Truth). The goal of all these religions is to give an experience of Divinity to their followers. While they do it differently they all share common principals which can be summarized in three parts: 1) on the esoteric aspect they teach a method of connection and meditation on the Divine, 2) on the personal aspect they teach virtue and character building, and 3) on the social level they teach service to others and opposition to oppression.
The collection of these principals and their practice form what we call “pure religion” or “Divine path”. It is the base of every religion, and indeed it is every religion in its purest and most sublime form. It’s been discovered and re-discovered by great men and saints of every age that pure religion is all that is needed for man’s salvation, and the ultimate solution for health at all the levels of spiritual, psychological and physiological. It is the that “water of life” in search of which Alexander journeyed to the edges of the earth. All religions were instances of the pure religion in their time, and solved the problems of different ages with the same method.
But the current perverted global culture which started in the west and spread all over the globe goes against every tenant and teaching of this pure religion and created havoc at a global scale.
As for the first principal, the principal of Divine connection and meditation, the perverted global culture rejects all forms of Divinity and spirituality. Instead, it teaches nihilism and never-ending doubt which cripples man’s sprite and his inner powers. In the place of meditation on God it teaches connection and meditation on Instagram, on TV series and other meaningless contents which fills the mind with poison and depression.
As for the second principal, the principal of virtue and character building, the perverted culture teaches the exact opposite of every virtue we knew before. It teaches stupidism, superficial pleasures, greed and self-centered mentality. In regard to the character building, we can see that the current culture is more of character destroyer in the young generation, and turned them into virtual world zombies.
As for the third principal, service to others and opposition to injustice, the perverted culture instead promotes competition, rivalry, racism and other Darwinist values.
And such anti-thesis of the pure religion and human values has spread everywhere and made everything up side down: good became bad, days became nights, and everything turned into its opposition. The result of all these is a generation of doomers and depressed, with high suicide rates and low spirits.
The problem is not that much about this current culture and its philosophies being perverted, as there were always perverted ideas in the world since the beginning of it, and for every thesis there were anti-thesis and for every Moses they were Pharaohs. Our concern is more about the absolutist claim of the current culture to its correctness, and that it promoted itself as “progress”, as “enlightenment”, as “civilization” and in short as “the truth” all over the globe. Everybody these days knows this culture and its lifestyle as “the only way” to human happiness and “the only way” of fulfilling life. It is this totalitarian aspect of the current culture and its ability to sell it worldwide that we are mainly concerned, and this article is dedicated to probing into these claims. For it is one thing to be perverted and another to convince the whole world that you are not.
Several arguments and “proofs” for the correctness of the modern western culture and its philosophies have been spread around the world (mainly by the western culture itself). One such argument -- and a prominent one -- is a historic narration which depicts current western culture and its ideologies, such as nihilism and hedonism, as the outcome of a long human search after the truth, as an outcome of human “progress” and “evolution” throughout the bygone ages. It is “the state of art” of what truth is and how life should be lived.
in particular, the history and story of the renaissance in the medieval western Europe is leveraged for this purpose. The renaissance is pictured as a war between “religion and reason” in which reason turned out to be the winner. Consequently, religion -- and in fact any form of spirituality and metaphysics -- is an outdated presupposition belonging to dark ages of barbarism. They are but the results of fears and unknowns.
Such a narration of Renaissance and its alleged “war of science and religion” became so widespread and widely accepted in the globe; it even penetrated into the eastern countries who are the sources of religion and spirituality themselves. And they all gave up their own culture and religio-spiritual heritages, and all took up western culture as a superior way of life and the de faco truth. These days, in every country, if you talk about spirituality or religion with others you will face conservative and at times sarcastic faces, and someone says “dear sir, science has proved that there is no God, ” or “neurology explains everything about human behavior!”
A study into the history of European renaissance and the writings of its fathers and proponents, even at a superficial level, effectively refutes such historic narration. Renaissance fathers were deep thinkers, and whatever philosophies they preached -- with all their varieties and occasional disagreements -- were authentic inquiries into the nature of life and existence which were far from the modern culture’s hedonism and faddism.
Most of them were spiritual people, and very holy and righteous. And if they wrote one treatise in mathematics or physics they wrote ten in ethics, theology and other spiritual topics. Interestingly, they preached something very similar to the pure religion and spirituality that we preach today.
They criticized the then church – the medieval church -- and its dogmas and rituals. Such criticisms were fair and just. We also did and do the same thing, and wrote extensively against Christianity in both its medieval and modern forms. For both renaissance fathers and us found they distanced themselves from the original teachings of Jesus. In that respect we are aligned with the renaissance fathers. Both of us are after the truth and true God, and not after atheism and nihilism. If we can be called atheists then so are the renaissance fathers.
But the modern culture and its propaganda machine pictured this opposition of the renaissance fathers to the medieval church as an opposition to “any” form of religion and spirituality, and presented it as a conflict between two distinct poles of science and religion. But this is an unfair generalization. For that which the renaissance fathers opposed was not spirituality, but was the medieval church’s way of spirituality, and what they proposed in the place of it was not nihilism or going after trivial things in life but was a more pure forms of Christianity. Far from materialism and nihilism, they wanted a deeper, a more meaningful, and even a more arduous form of spirituality. Their problem with the medieval church was not that it believed in God, but that it did not believe in God serious enough.
Renaissance fathers desired the abolishment of church rituals and dogmas, and replacing them with “core spirituality”, which they perceived to be a sincere devotion to Divinity and developing virtue and wisdom. An example of such doctrine was the “deism” religion which was developed in 17th century and remained widespread among many renaissance fathers and intellectuals of the time for several centuries. It has striking similarities with what we preach as pure religion and indeed is a form and instance of it.
For pure religion is written into man’s soul since the beginning of time. All saints and true prophets -- in all times and places -- preached this very same thing. From the Tao of Taoists to the Krishna of Bhagavad Gita, and to the Thoreau of the transcendentalists, at all times and places, they all preached the same path, which consists of 1) one Divine being; the source of light, knowledge and happiness, and 2) virtue and wisdom as the path to this Divine being and the sphere of a superior existence.
We also stated the same things in our formulation of the pure religion (which is nothing but the revival of an ancient wisdom). And renaissance fathers also stated the same thing. In contrast to what the current culture presents, they were not just genius physicists and engineers who discovered formulas, but in fact they were true saints and prophets of the medieval western Europe who preached the pure religion as we do today. Their scientific breakthroughs were also part of their spiritual quest to know and serve the Divinity. They were not proud of their knowledge. The so-called “Humanism” of the 14-15 century was indeed the glow of a new and pure religion in western Europe.
And so we are left with the question that if today’s materialism and stupidism is not promulgated by the renaissance fathers, and not a consequence of the science they preached, then what produced them, and what propagated them though the entire globe? This requires a new and fresh inquiry into the history of the medieval western Europe, and a revisionist one.
The modern materialism as we know today probably emerged as a movement separate from the renaissance, and as late as 19th or even early 20th century in certain circles in western Europe. It could be, and indeed it was, a by-product of the renaissance but not its continuation, and it is related to the renaissance but not in a direct way. Attempts to show that the two are not identical or aligned, and that some renaissance fathers -- such as Hume or Bacon -- are the precedents of the current materialism and its life style have been and are being rejected by recent scholarships.
As a matter of fact, in the search of the roots of our modern lifestyle -- and our problems today -- we find but little clues in the history of the renaissance or the writings of the scholars of that time: from da Vinci to Newton, from Descartes to Hegel, from 12th century to 18th or even 19th century, from England to Germany, one finds barely a finger pointing to the direction we are going today.
True, one finds elements of skepticism and at times anti-religious arguments in some of the renaissance fathers’ writings (like Hume and Kant), but those were in tandem with a new understanding of the universe and the spiritual dimensions, and should not be taken out of their contexts. They were mainly attacking the particular religion of the medieval Christianity and not all the religions, and they were challenging certain aspects of religion not the whole concept.
We are aware that few scholars of the later centuries --18th and 19th centuries in particular -- wrote and promote what could be interpreted as explicit materialism (though still subject to debate). The d'Holbach’s “The System of Nature” and La Mettrie’s “Man a Machine” are examples. But even such writings had ethics and morality as the base, and mainly argued that religion – mainly the medieval Christianity of the time – is an impediment to it. And in that sense they are still in the sphere of spirituality and pure religion. Nevertheless, such scholars and their writings were surrounded by a larger majority of scholars who refuted them and proposed an opposite philosophy along the lines of spirituality. For every d'Holbach was a Voltaire who wrote rebuttals on him, and even more.
In general there was no notable trend on those days to conceive a materialistic and hedonistic philosophy as we hold today. Our current ideology and life style must be rooted somewhere else and in something else …
Since ancient times religion and spirituality had been used (abused) in many ways for selfish and profitable ends. One variety of such abuse was the phenomenon called “priesthood”, where a group of people called priest – or by other titles such Pharisee, Brahmin, etc. - placed themselves as medium between man and God. They teach that God “requires” certain rituals, and they are the only ones “authorized” to perform them, and the only ones who can do them correctly. All rituals, prayers, and other religious activities had to be done in their presence and under their supervision in order to be acceptable to Divinity.
Using this method, and other similar methods and trickery, they were able to open a lofty position for themselves in the society. For without them there could be no connection to God, no prayer, no Divine favor and help, and there could be even an imminent danger of Divine wrath and revenge. So the priest became an important group, both politically and financially, and enjoyed an easy life of doing some rituals in a day and receiving the respect of God from the people; may God forgive them … Even the kings would seek their service and protection. Indeed they became powerful next to the kings and nobles or even beyond them.
Thus, there should be no question as to the motivation of this group to do what they were (and are) doing, and also no question in regard to their uselessness and parasite lifestyle. For in realty every person can go to God directly and pray without any need for a priest and specific ritual and utterance. And this was the teaching of all the true prophets throughout the ages. But the priests distort such teachings for their own gains, and close the doors of heaven to people so that they can open the doors of earth and its riches to themselves. They are the worst of people, and Jesus himself also testified to that: “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to” [Matthew 23:13]
Nevertheless, and not surprisingly, Christianity itself also became dominated by priesthood within few centuries since the death of its prophet. By the medieval period all the churches in Europe were controlled by the priests and popes who monetized the spirituality and teaching of Jesus for their own profit, and turned them all upside down. For while Jesus taught that “Love for God and neighbors” is the path [Matthew 22:37] they taught that the mass and church rituals are the path, and made themselves the only one authorized to perform them. And many other strange doctrines and irreverent arguments they injected in to the religion. What was called “Christianity” in the mediaeval Europe had very little to do with Jesus and his strict moralism and sincerity towards God, and it was more a kingdom of priests than kingdom of God in a way that it was supposed to be.
Priests enjoyed unrivaled power and privileges in the medieval Europe, and everything was in their favor until several challenges came their way beginning with 11th and 12th centuries. First, the renaissance fathers realized the reality of the priesthood just as we realized and explained above, and began to expose and oppose it. From the early renaissance manifest, “The oration on the dignity of man” by Mirandola, to all other subsequent writings such as Newton’s “A short Schem of the true Religion”, all pointed to the fact that the Divine path is inherent in every man without any need for priest or external agency, and the path is in the form of virtue and knowledge. They rejected the church’s dogma and sacraments as having any effect or value.
The second challenge was the protestant movement, which began around the same time period. Protestantism is not an instance of pure religion, for it still retains many dogmas and impure elements of the medieval Christianity, yet it opposes the church establishment of the time and some of their dogmas. In particular, Protestantism dismisses the priesthood and in that respect it was inline with the renaissance fathers in challenging the church. Other events such as black death, invention of the printing press, etc. each struck the ancient tree of the medieval church in different ways and directions, and made it like a bowed tree just before the last blow of the lumber man.
And while the storm of these challenges were thundering, an opportunity began to loom in from its horizon. And that was the industrial revolution and its subsequent system, widely known as capitalism. The explanation thereof is, the advancements in science and technology in the past few centuries reached a point where mass production became a possibility for the first time in human history. And the owners of mass production means – the factory owners – began to grow powerful, for they could increasingly control the markets, and eventually the society itself. They were called capitalist, and capitalism was born out of the steam engine and the mass production technologies it inaugurated in mid 18th century.
Capitalism provided a power base unlike anything else before. For in older days due to manual production the supply was limited, and businessmen of the time could not become so rich to dominate and affect politics in major ways. They could enjoy a luxury life in tandem with influence and favors of the society, but power was still in the hand of kings and his inner circle of nobilities. But with the industrial revolution and automation of production the supply grew hundredfold or even thousandfold, and so did the power of their owners. For the first time in the history one could become so rich almost like a king. These days the current capitalists have money more than several countries combined, and the global affairs are decided and directed by them in practice.
The church priests whose market and business was taking a downturn due to renaissance movement and other factors found in capitalism a saving hand. Just like when Jesus came walking on the water and saved the drowning Peter, so the capitalism came and provided them with a power base better and safer than the already unpopular and under-attack Christian priesthood. Priests and other power elites of the time gradually started to switch to the boat of capitalism, and a new establishment and milk cow was formed.
But for the new establishment to be successful a new set of doctrines and practices was needed. For at the medieval time there was no mass production, and as a result there was scarcity of materials. Most people possessed only the bare necessity of life; some could not even do this. It was quite common to have no shoe or wear a ragged tunic all the time. The wealth accumulation of nobility and elites – the priest included – also exacerbated the situation and further impoverished the common people.
Now for the medieval church to keep people from revolting against this poverty it was necessary to normalize the situation by promoting the poverty as a “virtue” and as a trait and commandment of Jesus. This required people to have some degree of spirituality and faith so that the church can build its ideal of poverty and other related virtues such as patience, submission to fate, etc., on top of it. Thus, the church and its missionaries were actively promoting spirituality and scriptures. The result was that religion, faith, and some virtues – particularly the virtue of poverty and contentment -- were present in all ranks of the society. In those days the ideal man was the one who had only shirt throughout his entire life, and relied on praying and submission for every incident and disaster in life.
But with capitalism and its mass production this ideal was no longer desirable. Now the ideal man is not the one who buys one shirt for his entire life, but a man who buys shirt every week (or even every day) so that the capitalism -- and its neo-priests, aka capitalists -- can make profit and remain in power. Similarly, an ideal man is no longer the one who relies on Jesus and prayer for incidents, but the one who is worried and buys insurance for every occasion. In short, what the system wanted was no longer a traditional Christian, but a hedonistic and coward creature who buys buys and consumes and consumes.
In order to make this happen, many ideals and virtues of the medieval church had to be reversed and replaced: greed in the place of poverty and contentment, fear in the place of faith, going to casino in the place of going to church, watching movies and ads in the place of prayer and contemplation, rivalry in the place of fellowship (“beat your neighbor” instead of “love your neighbor”) and so on. As a result, a new doctrine and “bible” was formed by the new establishment which, instead of morality, promoted hedonism, cowardliness, stupidism, shallow-ism and other degrading traits that make people buy more products and services and help consumerism to propel.
This new bible and doctrine placed “science” and its new discoveries as its base and justification. By doing so they did a very crafty trickery: for on one hand they dodged the criticisms of the renaissance fathers, and on the other hand they used the credit and popularity of the same renaissance fathers and the new sciences and philosophies they were producing to build themselves up. They used the power of enemy to defeat the enemy. They indeed exemplified the Gospel’s verse that: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” [Matthew 7:15] For they used to come to people in the cloths of priests, and now in the cloths of Newton, Leibniz, Kant and others, and in either case they were that “ravenous wolf.”
This new bible was opposite to the Christian bible in content but same in the goal which was dominating and ruling the masses. It was also same in terms of the methods and approaches used to spread it in the society. For the directors and captains of the new establishment were the very same priests of the medieval church, and they brought the same mentality and tools into the new establishment. It is important to note that the goal of medieval church was not real devotion to Jesus and his teachings, but the power and credit they could earn from Jesus. The tools and tactics used in medieval church were designed to subdue and rule over the crowd, and now they could be equally applied to the capitalism and its agendas. Now we explain these tools:
The first of these tools is “fundamentalism”, meaning the claim that one’s ideology and philosophy is the “only truth”, and rejecting all other alternatives. The medieval church considered itself as the sole possessor of the truth. They banned all other religion and ideologies, and tagged them as “heresy” which was punishable under their laws. Similarly, today any ideology or statement outside of the material science lines are derided and tagged as non-scientific, superstition, pseudo-science, etc., and any practice in regard to ethics is tagged as backwardness and close-mindedness. In the current culture it is impossible to bring up any discussion about metaphysics or spirituality when in a group; only discussions about weather, gas price and other material trivialities are allowed.
The second tool is appeal to human values; meaning the claim that one’s ideology represents and guarantees the highest and most noble human values. The medieval church, by its claim to representing the will and favor of God, already considered itself as containing all the valuable and lofty things in human life. Similarly, the current system claims to be the upholder of “freedom”, “dignity”, “equality”, “justice” and other values that are important to us. But in truth both of these establishments were doing the exact opposite.
The third tool is credit-theft, meaning the claim that one’s ideology is a “continuation” and following of popular and famous people of the past, and this way legitimize the ideology using the credit and fame of these people. The medieval church claimed to be following Jesus and used his weight and popularity to propel itself. Similarly, today’s establishment used prominent western figures, such as Galilei, Newton, Hume, Bacon, Descartes and other brilliant personalities, and claims itself to be the following and proceeding of the path and philosophy they preached. But the truth is those very same figures would repeat their anti-church writings against this new establishment as well.
Thus, the medieval church was not destroyed, but transformed into a new church, a second medieval church, with a different doctrine but the same dogmatism and priesthood structure. If we are to grant that there was indeed a “war” between science and religion in the late medieval centuries, the winner was not the science but the religion by metamorphosing itself into another religion (the religion of science). The enlightenment started by Dante, Mirandola, Newton, Leibniz and other myriad of European sages lasted but just for several centuries before falling into another dark age by these neo-priests, and it continues until this very day.
So we are living in the second dark age, and under the second medieval church which is headquartered in the western world, whose capital shifted from Rome further to the west and into the New World. The first and second medieval churches both had the same goal and purpose, which is to provide power and privilege for a few at the expense and detriment of many. One was doing it through faith and virtue and the other through fear and vice. Today’s dominant nihilism, hedonism, movie gazing, doom scrolling, fixation into mobile phones, addiction to virtual worlds, etc. are “not” deliberate choices of humanity, nor the result of progress and civilization, but the result of the activities of this second church who purposefully tries to create a stupid and immoral society so that it can rule over them through the device of capitalism and consumerism.
For example all the movies produced in the recent years were centered around mischief, violence, sexual scenes and stigmatic behaviors. But movie can also be about spirituality, morality and high values. Using the current state of art and the advanced visual effects technology they can effectively and artistically picture the spiritual journey of a truth seeker, or inner visions of a monk, or ails of a yogi. Movie can be about these topics as well. But we see all the movies are about negativity and vices.
This cannot be excused by blaming it on the people, and saying “this is what people want to see!” For what we call the rule of 50-50 is in place in the universe which states half is good and half is evil. In the particular case of people, it means half of people have tendency to noble and meaningful things and half to gross and negative things. The exact proportion of good and evil people can vary in a society and over time, but on average half and half ratio holds. For in the beginning of creation two Minos (forces) of Goodness and Evil separated from each other like two twins, and found enmity with each other, and the current universe was born as a battlefield between these two primordial twins. Given the equality of their powers and fairness of the battle, one may content that half of the creation is on the good side and half in the evil side.
This granted, we would expect half of the movies, or at least a noticeable percentage of them, should be about noble values and spirituality to appeal to the good half of the population. But the fact we see 100% of the movies hinged on evil and lasciviousness shows a deliberate and planned forces are behind the scene … and indeed it is nothing but the ministry of the second church’s priests, whose goal is to lower the morality and intelligence of the community. What we see everyday on the TV or billboards is a testimony to this truth.
For in a virtuous society there would no place and profit for them: if people develop the virtue of contentment and stop going to shopping malls every other day, if youths turn to studying philosophy, poems and other noble pursuits instead of watching Instagram all the time, if nobody subscribe to Netflix and Roblox, if nobody pays for ads, then a lot of money and market will be lost, most businesses (poison-sellers) today will go bankrupt, and neo-priests will loose their profit and power-base.
As a result, the second church -- in contrast to the first church -- can only thrive in a hedonistic and nihilistic society where people go after any ad and follow any fad and buy every useless product. People should be greedy so that the new brand of cellphones can sell millions in the day one of the release; people should be hedonic so that thousands of harmful and poisonous “entertainments” (movies, games, concerts, etc.) can attract thousands customers; people should be negligent and unemphatic so that the wastefulness, destruction of environment, rivalry, inequality, colonization and other branches of work necessary for the operation of capitalism can continue without any serious challenge.
Thus, hedonism, nihilism and other vices are the “rock” on which the second church is built. The goal of the second church is to create and engineer a weak and immoral society, and to keep the intelligence and spiritual level of people to the lowest possible point (only enough to prevent chaos and barbaric insurrections).
Just as the first medieval church would send missionaries everywhere to convince and convert the crowd, the second medieval church also has missionaries, though not much in the human form but more in electronic forms; namely the media and internet. In fact, today’s media is the greatest church missionary operation in the human history, whose goal is to induce immorality, hedonism, nihilism and other traits necessary for the success and prosperity of the second church. They achieve this goal by:
- Marginalizing religion and spirituality by labeling them as backwardness, superstition, pseudo-science, abuse, etc. 2) Discrediting religious and spiritual figures by spreading rumors of financial corruption, pedophilia and other vices against them. There is not a spiritual teacher these days who is not accused of illicit affairs with women. 3) Promoting nihilism, that life is meaningless, there is nothing out there, and one should only go after base pleasures. In the movies they often times depict a religious figure, such as a catholic priest, as the bad guy and his church as a location of smuggling or kidnapping to further bolster the idea that everyone is after his own gain and religion is just another form of business. 4) Hooking people to meaningless and sprit-killing clips through mobile phones and social media; and watching these videos for a large portion of the day which results in debasing the mind, lowering the intelligence and attention span. This produced a degraded and degenerated generation. 5) Promoting violence, rape, treason and other vices through movies and video games to further demolish the moral base of the society. 6) Wasting peoples time and mental energy by complex bureaucracy, form filing, online account creation, verification, legal traps, etc. 7) destroying all the social structures: neighborhood, families, friendship, etc. through various means and philosophies such as individualism, feminism, racism and excessive engagement with mobile phones. This resulted in everyone becoming lonely and weak, which facilitates their exploitation and enslavement by the system (the second church) 8) Supporting and propelling “influencers”, a group of very ignorant and characterless young people who become a role model of other youth, and “blind leads the blind and both fall into the ditch” [Mathew 15:14], so the spiritual and moral lives of youth are negatively influenced by these influencers and stupidism goes rampant. 9) Canceling all those who promote the real spirituality and solutions to the current problems, and instead promoting and fabricating fake religions and forms of spirituality based on non-action, passiveness and neural viewpoints – such as modern yoga, mindfulness, monastic sects -- which are not addressing the real roots of our problems and make religion truly into “opium of the masses” 10) Creating rivalry and competition among mankind, and spreading the myth of competition; meaning competition results in progress, but in realty competition only creates progress in pain, enmity and loneliness.
And many other similar methods and tactics they employ both in the media and in other modern institutes such as schools and public offices. The result of all of these is the destruction of morality, of wisdom, of humanity, and creating a state of doom and depression, of ignorance and idiocy as we all witness today.
It is in this state that meaningless movies can sell millions, overtly violence video games are played by all ages, ads for useless and ridiculous products find large converts. It is in this society that the capitalism and the new church can grow and flourish, and not in a spiritual society in which virtues and character building are the focus and goal of citizens. In such a society people would not follow ads, would not buy excessively and capitalism would not succeed.
Thus, today’s fall of morality and rise in materialism and selfishness is not an accident, nor a result of renaissance enlightenment, nor “human evolution”, nor an organic choice of the human society as they claim, but that the current system is manipulating and pushing people to this direction, and that the system wants people to be ignorant and nonspiritual for otherwise it cannot exist and its activities cannot be justified. As a result, the system tries to purposefully prevent people from gaining wisdom, from attaining enlightenment and developing virtues. It destroys morality, destroys self-sense, and all the human values, and by doing so it trashes the achievements of thousand years of civilization among all the nations, including western Europe itself. And these happens so that the new priests of the second church can rule and enjoy just as their priest ancestors did during the first medieval church.
Based on this, the current system is a criminal and illegitimate establishment. It victimized and enslaved the new generation -- and in fact the whole globe -- by depriving them from spiritual growth and God realization which is the birth right of every human. They claim to be proponents of human right and yet they violent the most basic and most important such right, and indeed they are a wrong and misguided group. And all these victims and lost lives and depressions and doom among young generation are so that their markets remain revolving and indices go up. All the money and assets in the markets are indeed the price of the soul of our children which are lost.
Action is needed to redress the situation. Just as the first medieval church kept Europe in darkness for over a thousand years, this second church also will do the same if no action taken. To stop the second church a second renaissance is needed. The renaissance fathers did a brilliant and brave job in fighting with the first medieval church, and for a short span of several centuries – mainly from 15th to 18th centuries -- a great light of wisdom and Divinity shone in the western Europe. And all the great discoveries and advances in science, which benefited us today and formed the foundation of our modern leisure, were founded or at least initiated at that period of time.
And not just science, but in fact spirituality, science and art all progressed hand in hand during the renaissance, as they are all aspects of Divinity in this world. Formidable scientists, engineers and poets emerged; it was the time of magnificent paintings of da Vinci, the revolutionary findings of Newton, high philosophies of Descartes, magical poems of Shakespeare and many other great and authentic works.
But soon the medieval church priest counter-attacked, and re-emerged with a new face and brand. They nullified the efforts of renaissance fathers and created a second dark age and a second church. They falsely labeled this second dark age as the age of enlightenment while in fact the age of enlightenment was the period preceding it.
Now it is our turn to fight with this new dark age just as the renaissance fathers did with the previous one. And our fight will be more or less along the same line and concepts as they laid out. Just as the previous renaissance began by looking into classic Greek and Roman literature, and in particular the writings of Cicero, we also begin with Cicero’s famous work “De Officiis” (on duties) and his famous quote of “Non nobis solum nati sumus” (“we are not born for ourselves alone”) in it, and by this we reject the current selfishness and individualistic attitudes that the system tries to induce in us.
Next, we go to Mirandola’s “Oration on the dignity of man” to recall man’s potential (and duty) to become wise and virtuous and how he will outrank angles if he becomes so, and by this we reject today’s nihilism and stupidism. Next we focus on Newton’s “A short Schem of the true Religion” and other similar texts to lay the foundation of a true religion and spirituality that could uplift man and answer life’s questions.
Next, we go to Descartes, Hume and others who marked the beginning of skepticism towards the medieval church, and we also take up this weapon of skepticism towards the current church (the second church) and its dogma of science fundamentalism; we become skeptic of skeptics. And similarly, we follow other writings and ideas of renaissance fathers to debunk the modern ideologies and trigger a second renaissance to emancipate the mankind from emptiness and pointlessness.
The second renaissance should oppose all aspects of the current modern culture, including:
- Opposing nihilism, and promoting adherence to spirituality and faith in God. 2) Discouraging virtual world, and instead promoting the culture of living in the real world, in-person visits and connection to nature. 3) Replacing social media doom scrolling with book reading, spiritual circles and other forms of what can be called spiritual and moral media. 4) Opposing science totalitarianism and fundamentalism (aka scientism), in particular dismissing scientific claims in regard to the origin of creation and events of the far past or future as these are beyond the scope of human perception. 5) Limiting the scope of science to everyday technological needs and avoid presumptuous claims (guesses and conjectures) based on limited information; introducing the phrase “I don’t know” or “we don’t know” in the scientific community. 5) Opposing the global spread and takeover of the modern (western) culture which is entirely made of elements and symbols of nihilism, hedonism, hate and self-centeredness. Each country has to follow and promote its own cultural music, cloth, etc. and should revive its own ancient wisdom and spirituality. 6) Opposing individualism by forming groups, colonies and other sort of communities where members are loyal to each other with a spiritual bond between them. This is required for the spiritual growth of humanity, empowering individuals, and taking away all the stresses and loneliness we experience today. 7) Rejecting the myth of rivalry that competition leads to progress. Competition leads to no progress other than progress towards a jungle. In commerce, trade, sport and any other area everything should co-operative, and the experienced old-timers should help and train the newcomers, and all take share from this table of God. Nobody should crush others. Until here 48) Banning all forms of competition, and replacing it with friendship and co-operation. In particular today’s sport industry is nothing but the remnant of Roman amphitheater games where men and animals tore each other for others amusement. 9) Discouraging sedentary and cloister forms of religion. For true spirituality is all about fighting with oppressors and solving society’ problems, and by means of this man becomes Holy as determined by Divinity in the beginning of the creation.
This way we may finish the task that renaissance fathers started, and offer our duty to Holy Divinity. Thus we explained parts of what revealed to our heart in regard to this world and its current state, and may Divinity bless us and accept this little service from us. In Him.