Curses of Culture: the Belief That Man (Human Beings) are the Measure of All Things.

Most religions preach that man is created in the image of God. In effect, we are then God's chosen species and we are given domain over all the world. As all religions are false ideologies, this premise is also false. As a species, we have intelligence, but we persist in either acting stupidly or in using our intelligence for destructive ends. We are proving that humans are not the measure of all things, but the potential destroyers of the world's ecosystems. Unless we act with some wisdom and morality independent of religion and political ideology, we will destroy most of life as we know it.

Human population has grown hugely and irresponsibly. We are consuming all resources in sight, creating huge amounts of toxic waste, polluting our air, water, and land. We are responsible for global warming. We cheat and kill each other. We try to control and dominate each other to our advantage. We treat each other with disrespect and hostility, particularly if our religious and/or political ideology leads us to view the other as different from us. This is not a description of being godlike. Man IS NOT the measure of all things, but simply one species on a flyspeck of a planet in an unimaginably huge universe.