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When Everything That Matters Can Be Bought And Sold, When Commitments Can Be Broken Because They Are No Longer To Our Advantage, When Shopping Becomes Salvation And Advertising Slogans Become Our Litany, When Our Worth Is Measured By How Much We Earn And Spend, Then The Market Is Destroying The Very Virtues On Which In The Long Run It Depends.

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.

If You Want A Free Society, Teach Your Children What Oppression Tastes Like. Tell Them How Many Miracles It Takes To Get From Here To There. Above All, Encourage Them To Ask Questions. Teach Them To Think For Themselves.

Religion Survives Because It Answers Three Questions That Every Reflective Person Must Ask. Who Am I? Why Am I Here? How Then Shall I Live?

After The Destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived By An Ancient And Fundamental Insight, That God Does Not Live In Buildings But In The Human Heart.