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Are we just selfish monsters trying to eat each other?

Our society has become saturated with propaganda that proclaims selfish competition as natural and reasonable. This apocalyptic view comes from viewing nature as a heartless foe rather than the divine instrument of life. It is a belief system that turns great profit for the merchants of exploitation and war who promote it. The belief that nature is “evil” also drives the violent xenophobia that has plagued society throughout history. Even evolutionary biologists and social scientists often adhere to this negativity as they see suffering in nature. But suffering and death describe little of the entirety of life. People are profoundly interdependent with nature and each other, but the shock experienced when violence occurs makes many think that horror is the higher truth. Criminality within the social group makes many people blind to the requisite group itself. Universal Animism is a reexamination of the core essence of nature. It is a definitive spiritual doctrine because it follows the rules of reason while recognizing spiritualism as open and infinite. It contains the truth about fundamentalism’s impossible contradiction, the truth about the psychological wars between spiritualists, dogmatists, and humanists, the truth about the shamanist roots of established religion, the truth about the scourge of Social Darwinism, and the truth about Deism and the very nature of God. Universal Animism is a thought-provoking book that calls for a complete reassessment of spiritual consciousness and civic responsibility.

There are many people, whether they claim to be religious or not, who think that ethics are artificial because they associate them with the superstition of fundamentalism. Ethics are lost when the religious paradigm that declares them crosses a certain line of reason. It is very frustrating for many thoughtful and reasonable practitioners of Judeo-Christian spirituality to have their good work continually co-opted by fundamentalists and religious profiteers... The great Immanuel Kant proved, with arduous detail and logic, that all arguments for the demonstration of the existence of God are flawed. But all arguments against the existence of God are equally as flawed. All of the reasoning he used can still be refined to the simple statement: one cannot know the unknowable by definition. The insight that religious truth (the existence of God, the existence of an eternal soul, etc.) lies outside the realm of possible experience is extremely important. For although we can empirically determine grotesque violations of moral decency by the standard of hypocrisy, it is the unattainable absolute truth about the spirit of “All” that ultimately determines moral truth. So “that which” is unattainable is the most important of all things. ...Intolerance is the ultimate ungodliness because it denies all God, denies all morality, and denies all reason. It is an absolute, undisputable fact that one cannot claim exclusivity of their creed or be intolerant in any way and also claim to be religious within any sense of the word, because they have rejected the unknown.