We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for aslongaswe are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for aslongaswepersist in self-centeredness.
And we certainly cannot delude ourselves into believing that our homeland will remain immune from their predations aslongaswepersist in the same sorts of appeasement that havebrought our friends and allies across the Atlantic to their present, parlous state.