Yoshie,
What are you doing now? God-building?
I had to search back through my memory and then with a little help through my Leninist texts to come up with this -- but minus the positivism -- it sounds like you are recreating "proletarian philosophy". So perhaps you should also look for precedents in the philosophy of Lunacharsky, Gorky, and Bogdanov?
I'm not necessarily criticizing, but pointing out that over and over again we have actually rehearsed this debate in one form or another. Perhaps a form of "god-building" is what is needed and a "proletarian philosophy" or socialist world-view has to be constructed in such a way to provide us with a "God-substitute" and through it positing a teleological goal to history?
If this is what you mean that I am pretty much against it; because all and all I still imagine there will be no religion, heaven or hell, only human consciousness, earth, sky and all of life. At least one of my goals -- socially and politically -- is that humans can live without the false-hood of teleology
Or is it that you think that the God doesn't need to be built because the other religions have shown us the way all we should/need to do is secularize their teleology? Because only with a secularized teleology can we motivate people? provide them with hope? It was all this kind of stuff that as a boy submerged in Catholicism, that I turned to Darwin, Marx, and the physical sciences to get away from.
Maybe, I am misunderstanding you.
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