The Truth Is That We Simply Do

To Not Believe In God Is To Know That It Falls To Us To Make The World A Better Place.

We Have A Choice. We Have Two Options As Human Beings. We Have A Choice Between Conversation And War. That's It. Conversation And Violence. And Faith Is A Conversation Stopper.

Lying Is, Almost By Definition, A Refusal To Cooperate With Others. It Condenses A Lack Of Trust And Trustworthiness Into A Single Act. It Is Both A Failure Of Understanding And An Unwillingness To Be Understood. To Lie Is To Recoil From Relationship.

Ten Years Have Now Passed Since Many Of Us First Felt The Jolt Of History-when The Second Plane Crashed Into The South Tower Of The World Trade Center. We Knew From That Moment That Things Can Go Terribly Wrong In Our World-not Because Life Is Unfair, Or Moral Progress Impossible, But Because We Have Failed, Generation After Generation, To Abolish The Delusions Of Our Ignorant Ancestors.

Life Is A Continuous Flux. Our Nonhuman Ancestors Bred, Generation After Generation, And Incrementally Begat What We Now Deem To Be The Species Homo Sapiens - Ourselves. There Is Nothing About Our Ancestral Line Or About Our Current Biology That Dictates How We Will Evolve In The Future. Nothing In The Natural Order Demands That Our Descendants Resemble Us In Any Particular Way. Very Likely, They Will Not Resemble Us. We Will Almost Certainly Transform Ourselves, Likely Beyond Recognition, In The Generations To Come.