Eco Nihilism

The Atheistic religion of science and the Theistic religion of the spiritual escapism both may conflict over the origin of the universe, but both are ideologically parallel in their Ecologically Nihilistic ramifications. Atheism strips the soul out of ecological science and therefore the purpose and necessity of integration with nature, for in technological progression rest the hope of man's escape from his essential dependence upon natural resources. Ecological preservation becomes nothing more than Sisyphus's absurd attempt to restore the rock of man's existential impact upon it's natural place upon the hill and in doing so trying to erase his existence using his existence in futile absurdity until he simply dies. What of the Sun? How can man replenish that resource? How can man escape the entropy that ensnares us all into absurd existence? Spiritual escapism on the other hand justifies it's ecological destruction in the name of a Deity. One that created something in order that it might be destroyed. In this the ecology also has no purpose other than being a means to an end that results in its destruction. The science of ecology has nothing on the escapist promise of another world after death. It cannot sway to its cause one who must reject the world in order to avoid being destroyed along with it. What then is the purpose of life now here on earth? Why not just hasten the arrival of the new earth in the act of destroying the old? Why even be placed upon the earth if the soul is all that matters?

The ideology of Ecological preservation gives rise to the necessity of a new religion to sustain it, for left man's own devices he moves into polarities of Atheism and Theistic spiritual escapism. For it to persist it must have a purpose that transcends the immediate reality we know on earth. This is why there is a great awakening of new age religion that focuses on oneness with the universe, for passion requires a soul, which Atheistic science lacked a belief in. It requires also identification with one's surroundings which spiritual escapism alienates itself from. The Ecological argument requires more than Atheist realism and Theistic idealism to sustain it, it requires spirituality. A spirituality of pantheistic form that sees purpose, or a god in nature and not outside of it, whether it is believed to exist or not.

This new form of spirituality comes out of eons of agnosticism whether that be saying there is no way to prove there is a god or that events unfold as a means to an unknowable end of god's. Man is finally in blindly just accepting that he can know the purpose of the universe through knowledge of his inner self and thus can arrive at a harmony with his surroundings. For what he is seeing he needs no eyes, for empiricism and rationality inhibit him from the truth. And the gospel of this new movement is universal harmony and the works of this movement come in the form of ecological preservation. They hide among the rational Atheists by focusing on the science behind Ecologicalism and they hide among Theists passionately enticing them with the idea of accepting rather than rejecting the spiritual reality of nature. Their eyes may be open, but what's to say that this isn't merely an illusion of spirituality like all the other religions atheism has crushed with science? Whose to say this new spirituality is not an evil attempt to deceive the souls of many away from the old views of Theism? The Atheists and Theists both retain their agnosticism in relation to the Ecologicalist, but they find ways to relate in doing so, by playing with the new rational ways to explain the spiritual in quantum physic and by explaining the history of Theism as a vein of the grander scheme of human spiritual expression.

My question is why are both opposing sides finding middle ground with this new breed? It is either that is true, which being a skeptic I doubt is the case, though there must as always with any lie be some true within it that is corrupted in order for the lie to exist. Or it is that this is simply man's natural response to a nihilistic world devoid of a full grasp on the truth. That man must in absurdity, find his purpose by creating it, but must insulate himself from the knowledge of his authorship by penning the story in pseudonymious form of spirituality. For only then can he come to terms with life's unquenchable search for purpose being insignificantly cut short of enlightenment.