Longevity of universal acceptance is of no essential relevance in the context of endlessly fluctuating anthropological and biological values. Ubiquity should not be equated with merit, nor conformity with virtue. We are, at this stage of human knowledge, merely myths created by religion. Viewed scientifically, the death of a human being is of no more significance than that of any other animal on earth.
Superior human intelligence is no mark of divinity. Empirically, it reveals a superior Savagery. No other animal on earth is so inclined to slaughter it own kind in regular global conflicts, apparently subject to the Orwellian expedient that some people are made more in the image of God than others.
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Longevity of universal acceptance is of no essential relevance in the context of endlessly...
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