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     Jack  and Jill approach human situations according to
a  set of beliefs,  traditions,  attitudes,   assumptions,
reasoning, etc. which they share in common with many other
persons  of  like persuasion.   The tragedy is that  their
common   approach   will   clearly  lead  to   the   total
disintegration of the global human community.   They agree
that  such is the case,  yet they are trying  to  convince
others  to  join  them in their way of  approaching  human
situations because, they say, it is God's will.

     Upon what grounds worthy of respect can Jack and Jill
make  the case that it is God's will that humans  approach
their  situations  in a way which will lead to  the  total
disintegration  of the global human community?    Probably
upon  the  grounds that the rewards in a life after  death
would be worth the sacrifice of the human community.   How
are we to know that such rewards can be relied upon?  Only
upon the basis of experiences in our lives before death!

     Upon  what basis are we to assess our experiences  in
our  lives  before  death to  decide  whether  they  point
conditionally  to  great  transcendent rewards in  a  life
after  death?   What would be the nature of the rewards in
the  life  after  death?    Would  those  rewards  involve
integration  or  disintegration of whatever  community  we
would experience after death?  Would disintegration of the
human  community before death be rewarded with integration
of the survivors after death?  Would the disintegration of
the   human  community  before  death  be  rewarded   with
continued  disintegration  of the survivors  after  death?
Both ideas seem absurd on intuitive grounds.

     Isn't  it more reasonable to believe and behave as if
integrative  behavior  in  a life before  death  would  be
rewarded by an integrative existence in whatever existence
might persist beyond the end of this life?

                                                                                                                               
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