logicp_writings/new/Religion_Forming.md

Definitions

If no one can define for themselves what something is, you will be told what it is and you have to obey. If the definition is change, you have to go along with it.

Theology

What is a Theology?

A Metaphilosophical system (not just a philosophy, but a system of philosophy that's complete and binds other lines of thought in philosophy together. Binds together other philosophical streams of thought and orients them in a single direction. Most theologies orients them towards a conception of God that the Theology parses out (what is God, the nature of God)).

Binds ontology, teleology, epistemology, axiology and sociology and orients them in the direction of the divine. This is the stumbling block that runs into legal problems.

Marxism denies being a theology because it denies the existence of the divine.

Seems to deny being materialist, thus I

Ontology

A theory of being. What does it mean to be? What does being mean? What is beingness? What does it mean to not be? What is nothing? What is the difference between being and nothing. Why is there something?

What makes a chair a chair? What's the essence of a chair that makes it chair-like instead of desk-like? What makes a man? What is a woman?

What does it mean to be human?

Teleology

A theory of purpose. Why are we here? What is our purpose? What's the meaning of life? What's the purpose of a bottle? How does it satisfy its purpose as a bottle?

Epistemology

What does it mean to know? How do weknow when we know? What is truth?

Axiology

A theory of value. What gives something value. How do we know where value comes from? What values should we hold and why (ethics)? What does it mean to value? Why do we value certain things?

Sociology

Theory of society.

If you look it up, it's frustrating: That which is in accordance with God.

But there is a comparison to be drawn from to understsand what makes something divine - a fundamental comparison of divine vs mundane (that which is in the world/of the world) vs that which is somehow beyond the world or beyond merely human. Something that is somehow transcendant. When you bind and orient a theory of being, a theory of purpose, a theory of knowledge and a ttheory of values and attendant ethics in a theory of society, so that if you orient them in the direction in a thoery of what yoyu believe that which constitutes what is beyond the merely human and worldly, you have a theology.

It's a "science" that understands and contextualizes other major branches of philosophical science and points them in one direction towards something that is transcendant and beyond.

Examples

Basic theology in the Christian sense: The nature of being is God and his creation. Being is what God has made, and God himself. The purpose that is attached to the our meaning: to serve God and beyond.

Additional terms

Circular logic: floating signifier