Reply #3: I'll attempt to anwer Floyd's question [View All]

[Martin Eden]

At every turn, human greed compounds our suffering. The urge to eat each other alive for power and profit, to consign whole sections of the common human family to degradation and exposure is a cruel mimicry of the planetary indifference that shadows us all. Of course, the earth isn't human, it has no capacity for conscience and compassion -- but what's our excuse for cruelty?

We don't need an excuse, because we are OF the earth. The indifferent forces of physics that convulse the atmosphere and the ground beneath our feet apply no less to the biological forms that evolved here. We behave according to our NATURE.

Belief in God and a divine spark in human beings, rather than elevating us to an enlightenment that might help us to cooperatively cope with the natural dangers of our planet, more often than not have divided us and closed our minds. The leaders of the most powerful, technologically advanced nation on earth routinely dismiss science when it conflicts with their religious world view.

Alas, we are not as superior to the beasts of the forest as we think, because their natural survival instincts -- uncorrupted by the pathologies of human intelligence -- are healthier than ours.