Post Religious Theology as a Change in Terminology, or, you can lead a horse to water ...

The stubborn horse that refuses to open its mouth (mind) in this case is personified in the 'secular humanist'. Unable to perceive the irrelevance of atheism in the context of a post religious (non theist) era, the secular humanist hangs on to a rigid ideology with the same basis as that of the fundamentalist theists, who on their side are also unable and unwilling to recognize that the reality in which they live is post-Christian and that it's no longer a question of apologetics for faith. Apologetics are worthless in the face of the complete irrelevance of theism itself.

Asking thinking to speak on the level of scientism or religionism is holding it to a standard that doesn't measure up to it.

The root theo preexisted the notion of a substantial being referred to as 'a' god, it was purely verbal with no nominal formulation. Theo in the current context refers simply to the 'Event'. Study of the Event is the ground of studies in any particular regional ontology.

The area of theology that in a religious context studied 'a' god, its implications and correspondences or contradictions with religious tenet, becomes the study of the evental, the transformative, a purely verbal posit with no nominal (or noumenal) formulation.

The other facets of theology, namely theology of the psyche and theology of nature encounter similar changes in meaning on this side of the epochal break.

Theology of the psyche, of course, includes all the 'human sciences', depending on whether one is discussing the individual or collective psyche. Theology of nature includes all the 'natural sciences'. Each sub-study of psyche or nature has to be re-grounded in the evental, only then can questions of appropriate methodology be attended to.

Reformulating things in this terminology sounds alien to many, if not perverse. But aside from the important advantage gained by tossing the cartesian language and its resulting subjectification, isolation and mechanization of beings a priori reduced to meaningless objects, it self-excludes the contingent of closed minded ideologues that have turned 'science' into scientism, a religion of its own with all the negative features of fundamentalist religionism without even the possibility of forgiveness for one's anti-scientistic sins, the most deadly of which is, of course, any questioning of the tenets of scientism.

Thinking is tired of stubborn horses that won't open their mouths to drink. They are welcome to their ideology of a reductive universe dehydrated of meaning.

Thinking is and always has been heretical. It is time for heresy to be honest about what its real opponent and opposite consists in. That opposite is, and alwaya has been, Stupidity.