What have we become? Not we as in this community of individuals trying to escape our daily existences on a realm of possiblities, but we as in humans. We as in our race.
*Looks around* It seems we have become human.
So, I ask you, my fellow man. What have we become?
*Looks around again* I change my answer. We have become gods. I am currently doing things people a hundred or thousands of years ago would consider impossible and magical. Just look, I am speaking to you threw what is essentially a piece of glass. I look behind me and see a simple rifle, witch could easily genocide the mentioned human and any other animal on earth. Food is rather plentiful to me. To the humans of the past, we are gods. As such, we are able to chose our own purpose. (Side note, purely metaphorical. But feel free to make your own purpose anyway).
We have cast aside our profound beliefs that there is a greater power than us
What is the matter of casting aside ignorance? We left the untrue behind. We have started looking for the facts. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Religion is a hollow shell to its former self. It has been replaced by amorality and ignorance.
Hah! Under religion you have witch burning. Under religion you have sacrifice, human or otherwise. Under religion you have hate. Under religion you have death, death, and more death.
"Who cares what tomorrow brings?" the multitudes cry
When has anyone ever cared for the multitude? They exist. They live. They help you live. They farm your food, build your defense, work for you and in turn you do so for them. True, many are ignorant. That can't be helped, as many are willfully so. But why must you follow them? Care for your future all you want.
Many will argue that science gives us light and guidance. Yes, science gives us facts, but who dictates how we use those facts?
Light as a guidance. Who decides? Those with the facts. Lucky for the world, those who have values considered by the western world to be decent have the values of science. Its the Americas, Russia, and Europe with the facts, all who have decent values. Find the facts if you want to use them.
Science gives no morality. And what do we gain from knowing everything?
Everything. Science gives the ultimate morality, the morality of no necessity. You don't need to steal. You don't need to kill. You don't need to rape. All do to the fruits of science. We gain everything from knowing everything. We could feed the hungry, have land for all, and be generally paradise with science. What has religion given the world? Billions of filled graves.
We, as a race, are headed down the path of an amoral and stagnated existence. This dear friends is our sickness. Our disease.
You have been wrong this entire time. Actually, our morality has improved greatly. Do you think a caveman would have opened up a soup kitchen? A knight would have ever built homes from the poor? Even a few hundred years ago, other sects of our own race were considered extremely inferior. Our morals, by western standard, are becoming better. I don't know what in hell you are referring to.
