Written by Konstantinos Konstantinidis Amphiktyon
In our time, everything is possible, why not see the new God? As long as it is not false and we are deceived Julian Huxley was the first to propose the idea of a new deity. Man is always looking to find the divine. Christianity is said to be dogmatic and outdated and is glorified only in the West. The new God must be universal in order to prevail. Gods begin as hypotheses to explain certain phenomena. Man makes them and when they become old, he changes them. Today, Gods have been replaced by Science. Technology searched the entire Universe but did not find God. So far he has discovered the four forces (nuclear, electromagnetic, gravitational and low nuclear (radiation)). But he has not yet discovered something, the Soul and the Spirit. Is there an almost certain suspicion that these connect us with the Divine Spirit? Although he believes that the gods will disappear, the divine material from which they sprang remains and will be the primary cell of any religion born in the future. The existence of the Spirit remains a fundamental mystery. Neither science and technology nor experience provide clear explanations for this. The new gods must adapt to modern life and free us from stereotypes, taboos and doctrines that hinder the freedom and free will of the individual and those that limit the spirit. His long-term goals are placed in the present world and not in the afterlife. The greatest damage is done by lies and hypocrisy, dogmatism and infidelity. Today most young people are non-religious but not atheists. Catholicism and Orthodoxy have no tendency for renewal. What petrifies is considered dead. God spoke differently to each ethnicity, but to all he was of Justice and Love. The philosopher Nietzsche said that the new religion will be Humanistic and will give special value to the expansion of scientific knowledge.. I do not know if Julian Huxley had studied the Greek ancestral religion, which was the first to question the gods but not the Divine, and liberated man and his spirit. The Greeks were the first to create gods according to the models of man and gave the individual freedom of thought and action and with the spirit approached the divine universal forces. Part of the Greek spirit and cosmopolitanism The religion of the East was taken by the Greek-inspired Byzantine Orthodoxy and then modernized it. But I never admitted that it is a blend of the “paternal Olympic religion” of freedom on the one hand and Judeo-Christian theology on the other. It acts in spirit as a successor of the patrimonial religion and in the form of the old cult, while the myth was borrowed from the East. Under the current conditions of global structural changes in all dimensions of life, with the new technologies that explore the depths of the universe, humanity has reached where it has reached, it is time for Orthodoxy to modernize itself, to be enriched with the spiritual philosophical dimension that it lacks and with all the spiritual wealth of our ancient world to accept and include the wise men in its list of saints. This will be the spiritual integration of the Greeks in one and only religion and the necessary bridging between Orthodoxy and the ancestral religion . Now is the right time on a global level for Orthodoxy to be the first modernized to act in times when man has reached the greatest impasse and technology is going to plunge us into deeper darkness with artificial intelligence, the spiritual problems and the suffering of his soul the algorithm does not solve, it is going to make him a slave, similar to the beasts. On the contrary, the humanistic spirit of our ancestors has been recognized by all the spiritual giants of all times, it became the creator of science and technology, but in everything it put man in measure without depriving him of freedom. It found the divine Word, Humanism and the institutions of Justice, Democracy, Struggle and universal Peace .Continuously adapted to new data, it can serve the human spirit as much as any other dogma. Orthodoxy should be the first to open the door, a new spiritual wind should blow and touch the human soul. Thus, humanity will be led to the divine spirit and, together with science, supernatural phenomena will be explained. The first dialogue within Orthodoxy should be held and a hand should be extended to the ancestral religion. The divine Word should be unified, the ancient and the new, and should be widely disseminated in the universe. Now it may seem like a utopia, but if it is realized, the profit will be enormous and spiritual, it will bring fruitfulness to Hellenism, to humanity and to religion (10/10/25) *Amphiktyon, Major General, former General Konstantinos Konstantinidis
Author, Member of the Society Greeks