Ursula, you quoted from Heidegger’s “introduction to Metaphysics in your opening statement. “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing.” In that book he argues that Europe was straddled between two industrial technological powers (russia and America) which were homogenizing culture and threatening being itself. His answer was historicity and culture which ended up being used as an ideological prob for the landed gentry in Germany to convince poor working class people to vote for the national socialist party. How does religious naturalism avoid the fascist pitfalls Heidegger fell into when RN is promoting a worldwide ideology based in the rule of scientistic technocrats?
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Ursula, you quoted from Heidegger’s “introduction to Metaphysics in your opening statement. “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing.” In that book he argues that Europe was straddled between two industrial technological powers (russia and America) which were homogenizing culture and threatening being itself. His answer was historicity and culture which ended up being used as an ideological prob for the landed gentry in Germany to convince poor working class people to vote for the national socialist party. How does religious naturalism avoid the fascist pitfalls Heidegger fell into when RN is promoting a worldwide ideology based in the rule of scientistic technocrats?
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