How to Save Humanity from Itself

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Subject: HOW TO SAVE HUMANITY FROM ITSELF

Thursday
November 16, 2006

Dear Jaromir,

I guess that, by now, you guys have figured out that I tend to share a lot of poems with friends. Hope you don't mind. Many of them, such as "Kryptonite" (below) get forwarded to me by my old friend Art Dunbar, who lives in Des Moines with his longtime wife Nancy and who is about to take early retirement from the State of Iowa where he programs computers.

In the interest of continuing to celebrate Marie's and my new friendship with you and Magda, I thought I might pick up more or less where we left off last time in our e-mail exchange concerning the abyss which our species is quite obviously teetering above as a result of its unwillingness to grow up and turn loose of its toxic superstitions and its highly destructive organized religions (i.e. tax-free recreational bigotries).

Any discourse from Galen Green on this topic must needs begin with my drawing what the logicians sometimes call "a bright line" between individual spirituality and organized religion. Before I pause to begin a sequel page to this one, let me just say that, in my view, organized religion is the problem, and is, in fact the enemy opposite of individual spirituality.

That said, let's meet on the next page.

Faithfully Faithless,

Galen


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