My reasoning propels me towards a third answer, besides Abrahamism and leftism, to life.
Which way, contemporary man?
Far be it to me, to advocate a full environmentalism. Yet, the influence of environment in shaping our thoughts, is undeniable. What lies within our possibility, is a certain degree of what we do with the knowledge that is available to us.
We live in the Western world, in , this is a factor we can't escape.
Culturally as well as geographically, this is our environment.
So when it comes to the issue of which ideology it will be to underpin our society, we often find that for about 95% of the people, this debate boils down to a choice between either Abrahamism, with its morality and theology; and on the other hand atheism, with its own theology and morality.
Though atheists often like to boast atheism is no religion, in 99% of the cases, atheism informs their worldview, and their moral and cultural convictions are linked to it.
And it should be noted that for either choice, adherents believe the other choice entails immorality.
I belong to the very small minority in the West, who acknowledges there are other worldviews besides Abrahamism and leftist atheism. Furthermore, I believe such "third category" of possible worldviews might be of interest for us Westerners as well.
We would be, I believe, poorer off in terms of intellectual knowledge, by leaving those worldviews, unexplored.
I tend to regard Abrahamism as a mutilated theology.
just as all biological life springs from a common source, all humanity is said to spring from a common source.
Whether that second proposition is true, remains out of my full convictions.
But I'm convinced that if we go back far enough in time, we find all religion to have had a common source as well.
Accordingly, Abrahamism is far removed from the original source.
Paganism, a word invented by Abrahamists to denigrate all the non-Abrahamic faiths, can be turned into a word of pride, what the Dutch call a Geuzennaam.
The Dutch and Flemish rebels once turned an insulting name, into a badge of honor.
Likewise, Paganism seems to suggest a shared bond uniting all non-Abrahamic faiths.
Hinduism thus, represents to me an unbroken tradition with paganism.
Hinduism represents the most complete system of paganism handed down to us in this day and age.
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