A place to talk about The Scorpion and the themes and topics discussed therein. The scientific Theory of Evolution just extends the vanishing point indefinitely. Also,the suggestion that evolutionary theory was the death of Christianity ignores the historical reality that very different competing theories of human origins had been available to even the earliest civilisations. That evolutionary thinking is generally accepted by today's liberal elite should in itself give us pause.
Culture is the goal for which religion is the absolute prerequisite.
Gradually,the two will split apart just as the sexes seceded from Plato's hermaphrodite. Alternatively,culture can be seen as a parasite on religion,which eventually usurps its host,Heraclitus' sacred disease. Here culture is a luxury,which indicates the degree and kind of a people's prodigality. A period of greatness,and of great danger follows. If Romanticism was an attempt to heal this split within Europe,it did not suceed.