True ethics does not tolerate “the sacrifice” as the heart of Reality.
I appreciate your concern but I feel my own journey veered away from this several decades ago when I wrote BEYOND CREED and my friend Will Campbell told me I would be deemed a heretic. I have essentially been outside of creedal messianism ever since. That is my name for Christian orthodoxy. Whether or not it was the belief of Jesus will never be known. I am with Schweitzer in admitting that the historical Jesus cannot be accurately described or understood.
My answer may be found in this little essay I am copying from its berth on Coffeelicious.
The Perfect Poem The Perfect Philosophy
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
This is Keats’ conclusion to what must be called a perfect poem.
Triadic Philosophy regards this statement as the very heart of teleology, of what transcends and moves beyond all statements expressing the tendency of Reality, the destiny of the cosmos, the essence of each life as it unfolds upon this planet.
It is the heart of aspiration and the substance of knowledge.
It is a statement.
It remains a statement.
It attains reality for us as it plays out in experience, sometimes faintly, sometimes with resonance, sometimes with shock as we note the disjunctures between truth and beauty that sully and disfigure both.
Keats is seen as a romantic but the very best romantics are realists as well.
The reality Keats flags for us is the
desolation
that exists
when evil is before us,
even in religious dress
as it is here.
Keats understands and therefore Triadic Philosophy understands that there is finally no index of reality that is not in essence a spectrum that goes from the very height that we can aspire to to the very depths of what we allow.
The sacrifice!
The Killing!
The desolation.
The death of happiness.
Truth may cry forth but when it lacks beauty it is not really truth.
Beauty may be emblazoned all about, but when it is false, when it lacks truth, it is dross.
In a bare five words we summarize all we do know and all we need to know.
Tell that to those who defend what we have had forever as a rightful ethic.
True ethics does not tolerate “the sacrifice” as the heart of Reality.
Sacrifice is beautiful only as it creates the basis for lives that are not crushed and macerated by the evil forces of the mindless and the selfish.
Nonviolence.
Freedom of movement.
Basic Income.
Tolerance.
Helpfulness.
Democracy.
These are the pillars of an ethic of decency, an attainable ethic for the fallible, the continuing, the evolving.
