God, the CTMU, and the "New Covenant"

This is hot off the presses. It's my response to a thoughtful email by Dr. Sean O'Nuallain of Foundations of Mind regarding God, morality, and what he calls the "New Covenant" which he believes is required in order to accommodate modern advances in science and theology. It originated with a paper he wrote in 2011, prior to my involvement with the group. My response merely brings his remarks up to date with respect to the CTMU papers (2017-2020) that have since been published in the FoM journal. 

Previously in the thread, Sean had mentioned theothanatology (from the Greek theos or God, and thanatos or death). This is the historical idea sometimes expressed as "God is Dead", along with its associated strains of philosophy and theology. The idea came from Hegel, was brought to public awareness by Nietzsche, was subsequently discussed by Tillich, and has since been taken up by various Christian theologians. It is important to understand that, far from asserting that God had literally died, most of these thinkers have focused on the death and resurrection of Jesus, the antireligious effects of science and modern culture, human minds for which the God concept has lost its meaning, and a new and refined understanding of God as a function of cosmic, theological, and human socio-psychological evolution.