Editing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (section)

==== New religion ====
As he wrote to a cousin: "What dominates my interests increasingly is the effort to establish in me and define around me a new religion (call it a better Christianity, if you will)...",<ref>P. Teilhard de Chardin, ''Letters to Léontine Zanta'', Harper & Row, New York, 1965, p. 114 (letter of 26 January 1936) – quoted in W. Smith, ''Op. cit''., p. 210.</ref> and elsewhere: "a Christianity re-incarnated for a second time in the spiritual energies of Matter".<ref>P. Teilhard de Chardin, ''The Heart of Matter'', Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1979, p. 96 – quoted in W. Smith, ''Op. cit''., p. 22.</ref> The more Teilhard refines his theories, the more he emancipates himself from established Christian doctrine:<ref>W. Smith, ''Op. cit''., p. 102.</ref> a "religion of the earth" must replace a "religion of heaven".<ref>P. Teilhard de Chardin, ''Science and Christ'', Collins, London, 1968, p. 120 – quoted in W. Smith, ''Op. cit''., p. 208.</ref> By their common faith in Man, he writes, Christians, [[Marxism|Marxists]], [[Darwinism|Darwinists]], materialists of all kinds will ultimately join around the same summit: the Christic [[Omega Point]].<ref>W. Smith, ''Op. cit''., pp. 22, 188.</ref>