Functionalism, Religion, Technology

While on Dewey's Functionalist interpretation, Technology supplants Religion in some respects, i. e. as a problem-solver, the former no more escapes the fundamental influence of the latter than does eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil eliminate God from the lives of Adam and Eve.  For, insofar as Functionalism presumes the human condition to be inherently diminished, it remains embedded in the same tradition that interprets that condition to be governed by a Fall-Salvation theme.  In contrast, Nietzsche shows how human creativity precedes function, a conclusion at which Heidegger similarly arrives when demonstrating that Technology is primarily an instance of Ontological Poesis, a demonstration which is often mistaken for a Luddite critique of Technology.  So, from that perspective, Dewey's promotion of Technology is only apparently at the expense of Religion.