ONE-SIDEDNESS CHALLENGED: a Sign of Hope

    The hyped rationalism of the Enlightenment is misplaced as is the hyped fideism of imperial theology. Faith and reason - religion and science - cannot arbitrarily be disconnected from each other without schizophrenic consequence. The mono-polarity of one-sidedness is unhealthy and unreal as the global situation and history attest.
    The dead ends of wars, exploitation and alienation appear ever closer even as the bi-polarity of human intelligence is beginning to surface and to self-assert. That is healthy and real. It might be added that it is high time for it to happen for the manipulative ways of male dominion are being exposed for what they are, idolatrous egoism.
    The bi-lobar cortical brain is remarkable as a spiritual instrument whose materiality is structured in form and function to serve noble spiritual purposes. The brain is designed to be dialogical, that is, to be emotional and rational, faithful and intelligent, and to evolve in wisdom. The interactive communication of faith and reason puts all thought and all action to the test, that is, to the test of justification and sustainability, namely, by questioning what outcomes serve wellbeing and what outcomes work against wellbeing.
    The patriarchal rationalism of dominion theology and the putdown of women by male culture – historically premised in religious/political institutions – is proving to be sacrilegious, i.e., wasteful of ecology, lethal to economics and blind to the instance of divinity in the evolutionary processing of eucharist.
    Pope Benedict XVI is showing remarkable sensitivity for the crises of the time, for the wisdom of women and openness and to allow correctives to religious/political fixations of the past: "I believe that women themselves, with their energy and strength, with their superiority, with what I'd call their spiritual power, will know how to make their own space. And we will have to try and listen to God so as not to stand in their way." [The National Catholic Reporter, 8/25/06, page 3]
    World and local governments, public institutions like education, etc, well-serve global civilization by turning a new page on history and opening themselves to the unique intelligence of women, ordained by nature-God in the uniqueness of the female personality, and accord to them their essential place in religious/political discourse. The isolated male place in global hegemony is exposed for its defective virulence and it must give way for femininity to rise to its rightful ordination in the essential rationality of emotional intelligence. [More at www.secondenlightenment.org]