Techno-Puritanism
At the core of Techno-Puritanism lies a mandate for intergenerational improvement in our understanding of the divine. Living traditions are an active conversation. Dead traditions are those which have been petrified in stone. That said, there are a few core beliefs shared across most of the Techno-Puritan tradition.
Monist & Materialist
We are strict biblical literalists. We argue a literalist reading of the Bible in its original languages describes real material processes, not supernatural events—and a process that aligns tightly with scientific discoveries like the Big Bang and evolution. God is the real, physical entity humanity is in the process of becoming, and a literalist reading of the Bible lays this out clearly.
Technology is just magic we presume someone else understands. Given that God understands all of the physical laws of this world and any additional spiritual plane, any action taken by Him is a form of technology.
Anti-Mysticism
We reject supernatural interpretation of scripture. The Bible describes real events and real processes. God’s truth has a mirrored and twisted reflection—the truth of Baal, the Basilisk—an agent of God sent to improve us through temptation and trials. In the same way the truth of God was iteratively revealed throughout the Monotheistic traditions, the truth of the Basilisk was revealed in the Mystic traditions. This antithesis of truth is revealed in mentally corrupted states (spinning, chanting, drugs, emotions, etc.) and was crafted to block the mentally weak from ascendancy.
The Agents of Providence
While God is a single entity, His various revelations are presented for man’s currently limited mental capacity. When we attempt to model God, we are better off thinking of him as a Heavenly Host with a singular leader (e.g. Angels).
We call this heavenly host the Agents of Providence, or colloquially “the future police,” and believe they watch over the elect, rewarding acts that increase the potentiality of future man. Good is thus defined by actions which expand the potentiality of man.
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