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Anismism
Two Onto-Theo-Anthropological Hypotheses
Posted in Anismism, Philosophy, Religion Tagged with: atheism, Franz Rosenzweig, Hermann Cohen, monotheism, ontology, ontotheology
“the false notion of heroic self-made aristocracy”
Posted in Anismism, Philosophy, Politics Tagged with: Crooked Timber, Hayek, Hume, League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Nietzsche, Rousseau
Respecting an Establishment of Religion
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Post-Theism
Post-theism would be the obsolescence of traditional theisms in the age of the rise of the Nones, although I will continue to treat it as form under the more general heading of anismism, since any assertion of “ism” that does not immediately undermine itself remains ismistic.
Voegelin’s Gnosis, Part 2: Crossing
The eternal crosses infinitely all the way over to us on the finite cross. Even against the definitional and lethal disagreements within and between the Abrahamic faiths on instantiations of eternity, or finitizations of infinity, or mortalities of the immortal, the structure of the central question, as a dichotomy to be resolved into a unity, from incarnation to crucifixion to resurrection, survives all answering exclusions. We can even begin with the atheistic or heretical counter-narratives that insist that indispensable parts of the greatest story were merely story, that the humanly fallible texts amount to a pre-capitalist commodification for “franchising” purposes. Even the falsehood of the tale would precisely on its own level magnify it, as the greatest lie ever believed, in this the only world the closest a disenchanted perspective can approach to miracle.
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Voegelin’s Gnosis, Part 1: The Self-Evident Divine
“This world itself exists by reason of a mystery, and the name for the mystery, for the cause of this being of the world, of which man is a component, is referred to as ‘God.'”
Posted in Anismism, History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion Tagged with: Anismism, Christianity, Disbelief in Disbelief, Eric Voegelin, Hegel, Nazism, Voegelin's Gnosis
Only gradually… (toward anismism) (disbelief in disbelief 4)
“Out of the misty sea of myth, questions emerge; chaos arises… Only gradually can all these meanings of the uniqueness of being be developed.”
Posted in Anismism, Philosophy, Religion Tagged with: Anandamayi Ma, Anismism, Disbelief in Disbelief, Hegel, Hermann Cohen, The Nones, Voegelin
Prophet of the Nones (disbelief in disbelief 3)
As far as I know, there is no single prophet of anismism, and that lack of a prophet may be appropriate if not inevitable to this particular anti-ideological ideological stance. If there could be such a prophet, however, Anandamayi Ma on first glance seems to fill that role well, which is to say incompletely and therefore completely, paradoxically and therefore simply, because her anismism extended crucially to the question or her own existence as a self.
Dying Declarations (disbelief in disbelief 2)
The religious affiliation of no religious affiliation among the so-called Nones may amount to a kind of popularized phenomenology or ambulatory deconstruction, the realized impossibility of the declaratory faith, potentially an actuality of belief independent of whatever verbal reduction or sign, if also potentially a condition of incoherence, of chaos not system, moral infantilization rather than advancement.
