One Life Materialism

*We stand on the precipice of eternity or silence. No crime could carry the moral weight of cowardly accepting silence. In order to pass a great Weighing of Souls we must stand straight and strong in the pursuit of eternity. I have accepted as my religion the weight of future generations. I search not for immortality or utopia but instead to build amongst the chaotic and untamed matter of the stars a habitat fit for consciousness. To accept this as your God means to frame every action as moral in so much as it increases the probability of the long run survival of consciousness and immoral the degree to which it obstructs this goal. Let it be for future generations to decide what the real purpose of Man is. But that is not our privilege. Not until every corner of the Universe teems and dances with life can we set down this burden. This is a task which cannot be accomplished by any single human or generation of humans. Its goals require uncountable generations taking their own modest step towards the beginning of infinity. It requires the mustering of resources on a scale we cannot begin to imagine. Thus we must construct a theocracy whose religion is our survival and whose God is life itself.* 

As the cultural edifices of our society have each been shown to ring hollow, Western man has turned to a new metaphysics. Something I refer to as “one life materialism”. In its most succinct form this is the belief in two axioms.
 

1. The Material world is all that exists. 
2. Death is final.