You sure do have more patience than do I, Cosmotheist. This John Carver critic is not one of us and never will be. I wouldn't waste my time with him. But thanks for posting the link. I read the article and the comments that followed, some of them quite good. Andrew Hamilton, for example, like you, addresses this claim by Carver about Cosmotheism being universalist:Cosmotheist wrote:A Cosmotheist response to John Carvers article on
"Cosmotheism", or more specifically, his somewhat
false criticisms of it.
http://www.counter-currents.com/2012/07/cosmotheism/
John writes:
"And, like Christianity, Cosmotheism is de facto a universalistic religion. Now, this will seem a strange claim since Pierce offers it as an ethnic religion — a religion for whites exclusively."
A religion that is for "Whites only and exclusively" is not any "de facto universalistic religion" at all.
That is not only a "strange claim" it's a "false one to claim that it is one" as Dr. Pierce made it clear.
Best regards,
Cosmotheist
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Andrew Hamilton
Posted July 29, 2012 at 8:26 am | Permalink
Cosmotheism represents belief in progress on steroids. It is a millenarian intellectual construct.
Millenarianism, the belief in a future utopia, has been characteristic of various sectarian groups of whites throughout history. Judaism, too, is utopian, as are its secular off-shoots like Communism.
The other striking characteristic of Cosmotheism, noted by Carver, is its universalism. Universalism seems inherent in all forms of pantheism or panentheism, to which whites, or a large subset of them, are strongly drawn.
I am most familiar with this in the form of New Thought, developed by New England mystics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (but still alive today) influenced by Emersonian Transcendentalism. New Thought bears many resemblances to Cosmotheism, with the exception, of course, of any pro-whiteness. Its ideology is multiracial.
“The universe,” [Pierce] writes, “is the physical manifestation of the whole.” Nothing within the universe can be said to be an end-in-itself: not mankind, not the planets, nothing. Only the whole is an end-in-itself. Further, the whole is continuously changing and evolving toward more and more complex forms.
That is a universalist vision. Non-whiteness is inherent in it.
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