Social issues

Social issues
Evolutionism has positioned itself as offering a progressive and equitable alternative to 21st-century society during the 2020s, and to other organized religions which it describes as archaic and outdated

The Church of Evolution has heavily criticized cancel culture, Identity politics, and Trumpism as products of a nihilistic 21st-century society.

A common trend among positions on all issues is the idea that all people are in pain, and that 21st-century society tends towards promoting conflict over addressing the neuroses of people who cause suffering.

Economic issues
The Church implements policies designed to increase empathy between entrepreneurs and workers. The Church supports a form of Class collaboration with the idea that both workers and business owners are essential to modern economies.

Immanuelle has argued that entrepreneurs see the world in a fundamentally different way than workers and are often willing to make larger personal sacrifices for their visions. He argues that entrepreneurs tend to treat their workers as though they share this worldview, and don't realize their workers lack their passion for their vision, and don't realize their workers will take expectations of sacrifices a lot worse than they did.

He argues that entrepreneurs tend to think of stock ownership in terms of controlling interest, while workers tend to think of stock ownership in terms of wealth, and is an advocate of special stock as a way to resolve this and give more control to entrepreneurs and more wealth to workers.

He argues entrepreneurs play little role in income inequality compared to executives and hedge funds, which he argues often act in an extractive manner towards their companies. He argues that executives often use their power in companies to give themselves higher salaries and bonuses at the expense of stockholders. He is an advocate of regulating executive pay, activist shareholders, and zero dollar salaries.

He has argued common ownership by companies such as BlackRock undermines economic competition, and has proposed stock ownership be public knowledge to prevent conflicts of interest

He supports unionization and free education, and has argued that companies should get subsidies for training their employees, as such employees often leave and work for other companies, which benefits the economy but not the training companies

Political systems
Immanuelle is an advocate for e-democracy, and Liquid democracy in particular, and believes that first past the post is the source of most American political issues.

He is an advocate of scientocracy, or rule by the scientific method, but an opponent of technocracy, or rule by the engineers and scientists. In 2022 he said that the theory of scientocracy is too undeveloped for use in government, as such it should be used and developed in The Church first, while governments should move first to proportional representation and then e-democracy.

As of 2022 The Church has not implemented scientocratic rule due to a lack of research funding.

Transhumanism
Immanuelle is a strong advocate for transhumanism and argues it ought to be made equitably available to everyone to avoid exacerbating income inequality. He argues that transhumanism when equitably distributed will cause an increase in equality as people with particular disadvantages will benefit the most from it

Open source intelligence/Sousveillance
Immanuelle argues that information asymmettry is often the cause of social injustice, and that concerns over surveillance are best explained by information asymmettry rather than privacy. He argues that the key to making just societies is increasing transparency so that everyone can make equally informed decisions on issues like which jobs to take and which politicians to vote for.

Racial Issues
The Church strives for racial equality by telling the histories of all races within its holy texts.

Heritage is seen as highly important in Evolutionism and such narratives are considered core to an individual's experience of the religion. Telling all sides of history and historical discussions of racial issues are the norm in The Church. A 2021 list of tenets (presumed lost) described repentence for ancestral sins such as systemic racism as one of the core tenets.

Immanuelle has argued that racism in the United States is intrinsically linked to Income inequality in the United States and that one cannot be addressed without addressing the other. He has also argued that racial issues in other parts of the world are dissimilar to American racial issues, and looking at them from an American lens is a poor way to address them.

LGBT Issues
LGBT issues have been very prominent throughout the history of Evolutionism from the beginning. Numerous figures in its founding including Immanuelle himself were bisexual in particular, with estimates placing 90% of early adherents and associates as being bisexual. Internal debates about the LGBT movement dominated Evolutionism early on, but became less prominent as the focus shifted towards wider society. Evolutionism notably advocated for LGBT reproduction early on, and has set up a funding system so its LGBT members can afford to have children when it is possible.

Gender Issues
Immanuelle has argued that anomie hits men especially hard compared to women. He argues this phenomenon is unrelated to feminism, and that feminism is merely a scapegoat used by the far right. He points to similar periods of history where societal norms broke down and argues that predecessors of the manosphere have existed long before feminism existed during periods of societal strife. He argues that organized religion and strong meta-narratives are essential for healthy masculinity, and without them it inevitably degrades into nihilistic hegemonic masculinity. He argues that male entitlement is not a major phenomenon, and that a desire for dominance is often falsely equivocated with entitlement. He has described masculinity as being most healthy when future-looking and producing a better life for future generations, and unhealthy when looking to the past.

Immanuelle has criticized the men's movement for promoting a false understanding of toxic masculinity as referring to a belief that (all) masculinity is harmful to others, while promoting gender norms that psychologically harm the men that follow them

Immanuelle has described female socialization as resulting in women and trans men being unable to properly voice their desires and negotiate. He argues this results passive aggressive behavior from women and is the actual cause of most frustrations men have with women. He argues that teaching women to express their desires more clearly and assertively will result in a reduction in the gender wage gap, the end of the sex recession, and a reduction in misogyny. Examples include women asking men out and women asking for higher salaries and women saying no to sexual acts they don't want over merely not saying yes. He describes such issues as toxic femininity

Deradicalization
The Church has criticized many deradicalization attempts as failing to provide people the necessary community to live after extremism

Online dating
Evolutionism is strictly against online dating. One of its core tenets is the idea that sexual relationships ought to emerge from the community and remain subservient to the community. As such The Church of Evolution makes it a major priority to organize social events so people can meet their partners without using online dating. Opposition to online dating is often seen as one of the defining social rules of Evolutionism that distinguishes Evolutionists from non-Evolutionists.

Immanuelle has frequently criticized online dating as leading to depression, especially among men, and leading people to treat romance as a substitute for the divine. To a lesser extent he has criticized dating as a whole for facilitating this, being a twised form of romanticism that seeks escape from meaninglessness through emotion and a single mortal person rather than through reason and the divine, he credits John Vervaeke for this analysys. This is where the concepts of Idolatry (seeking salvation through another) and egotheism (demanding another seek salvation through you) come from.

Online dating creates a privatization of dating which makes it external to other social interactions.

Immanuelle has described incels as being a product of an atomized culture that strips meaning from everything but romance, and proposed resacralization of all aspects of life and community as the solution to the problem.

Dark Enlightenment
Immanuelle has described the Dark Enlightenment as recognizing the need to reintroduce meaning into modern society, but failing to take into account why meaning has declined in modern society. He argues that authoritarians of the 20th century saw meaning collapse and sought to use force and deception to keep people from recognizing the obvious in the form of totalitarianism. He argues the Dark Enlightenment will merely repeat the mistakes of 20th century totalitarians rather than solve any issues.

Identity politics
Immanuelle has been extremely critical of identity politics, describing them as an idolatry. He has been especially critical of LGBT politics which he has described as removing a familial role and transforming it into an identity incompatible with its purpose. He has said "Evolutionism is the negation of identity and realization that you are part of a greater whole".

Particularism is considered a sin in Evolutionism, and is contrasted with the ideal of universalism. This is to give everyone a chance to be treated fairly and avoid the establishment of extractive institutions.