Excerpt #124 from my book, Religion, An Obstacle to Human Progress
You, me, and our beloved families and friends are passengers on a sinking ship.
We are too many and our weapons too deadly for such a tiny planet with an extremely fragile ecological system.
The dysfunctional belief systems that got us into this fix are out of step with reality.
We must let go of the nonsensical religious thinking on which many of us were nurtured and cope with the demands of life as it is, not as we fantasize it to be.
To arrest and reverse our destructive and unsustainable momentum, end our needless suffering, prosper together, find peace, sustain humanity, advance our civilization, and succeed as a species, we must enter into a completely new way of thinking about reality.
Our window of opportunity to accomplish the necessary and monumental shift in thinking is small compared to the large obstacles within our belief systems that must be dissolved.
Yet, we must do this if we and all the life forms that share this jewel of a planet are to survive.