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Just As The Natural Environment Depends On Biodiversity, So The Human Environment Depends On Cultural Diversity, Because No One Civilization Encompasses All The Spiritual, Ethical And Artistic Expressions Of Mankind.

Religion Is The Best Antidote To The Individualism Of The Consumer Age. The Idea That Society Can Do Without It Flies In The Face Of History And, Now, Evolutionary Biology.

The Hebrew Bible Contains Multiple Provisions To Ensure That No One Would Go Hungry. The Corners Of The Field, Forgotten Sheaves Of Grain, Gleanings That Drop From The Hands Of The Gleaner, And Small Clusters Of Grapes Left On The Vine Were To Be Given To The Poor.

We Are Biological Creatures. We Are Born, We Live, We Die. There Is No Transcendent Purpose To Existence. At Best We Are Creatures Of Reason, And By Using Reason We Can Cure Ourselves Of Emotional Excess. Purged Of Both Hope And Fear, We Find Courage In The Face Of Helplessness, Insignificance And Uncertainty.

Religious Ritual Is A Way Of Structuring Time So That We, Not Employers, The Market Or The Media, Are In Control. Life Needs Its Pauses, Its Chapter Breaks, If The Soul Is To Have Space To Breathe.