Those things which mankind has hitherto pondered seriously are not even realities, merely imaginings, more strictly lies from the bad instincts of sick, in the profoundest sense injurious natures- all the concepts, "God," "soul," "virtue," "sin," "the beyond," "truth," "eternal life"... But the greatness of human nature, its "divinity" has been sought in them.        "ECCE HOMO" "Why I Am So Clever"-No. 10                                                —Friedrich Nietzsche
			Conclusion
		H. sapiens alone among species was able to use his imagination to create a supernatural world. It became for him his answer to fear of the unknown and could be called upon by various means—prayer, incantations, sacrifice—to provide protection in times of need. It is impossible to conceive of mankind free of its dependence on the supernatural. It has pervaded and dominated human life from the most primitive to the majority of people today. This dependence has created the religions of the world, powerful organizations whose life blood depends on swaying the masses by offering freedom from fear of adversity and death in exchange for blind faith and belief. In accepting this belief and faith, mankind renounced his responsibility for his acts against other species and nature, answerable only to a supernatural being of his imagination.        It was essential to the existence of religious faith that the acquisition of scientific knowledge be resisted by any means possible every step of the way. Despite this resistance, there is the deep rooted tendency in the minds of some humans to seek rational explanations for natural states and events. Greek philosophers sought, probably for the first time, to explain the world around them with ideas based on rational thought. Christianity ended for fourteen centuries questioning after scientific truth. Even today, there are scientists who try to find God in special relativity and quantum mechanics. Most humans today, if they thought about it, would not exchange the feelings of security engendered by religion for cold, hard scientific facts and would be firmly on the side of religious belief in the unending struggle with science.        The most pernicious result of religious ideology, particularly Christianity, against the preservation of essential environmental conditions, is the idea of equality. Biological inequality of humans makes this goal unobtainable. Western style democracy, based on Judeo-Christian ideals of equality, being promoted world wide, not only attempts to insure the possibility of each individual to provide his livelihood through overproduction, but also the opportunity to acquire unlimited wealth. Added to this is the fundamental "moral" right to produce as many offspring as he desires, whether he can care for them or not. Paradoxically, these concepts have resulted in the opposite of what is professed as Christian ideology. They have unleashed the greed which has become a necessity for survival and become the basis of society today.        Powerful commercial enterprises arose simultaneously with the ideal of economic equality, eager to provide, not only the essentials of life, but to insure ever increasing demands by the ever doubling population. This can only be done by endangering the conditions necessary for survival.        The great achievements of the mind of man in the arts will, unfortunately, disappear along with the rest. But great art is already almost a thing of the past. The need to woo the masses because of the market they provide determines lifestyles world-wide. It has produced the current all pervasive decadent "culture," characterized by mediocrity and vulgarity, from which there is no escape. The great architectural masterpieces— Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque architecture, the Parthenon, Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, the Alhambra, Copan, the cities of Dresden and Venice have been bombed or are disintegrating from pollution and lack of funds to restore and maintain them. The music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Tschaikovsky and Wagner among many others has been replaced largely by savagery straight from the jungle. It is curious to observe how close to savagery humans are by the almost universal devotion to this so called music. Egyptian tomb paintings, Greek sculpture, Renaissance painting and sculpture, Japanese prints, painting by the Impressionists: almost all are owned by a few rich patrons or housed in museums, viewed by a small minority. The dramas of Shakespeare, Goethe or Moliere are seldom performed, those of Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Sophocles or Euripides practically never, replaced by Hollywood and similar enterprises.        The achievements of the human brain in the field of science have progressed at an ever more rapid rate, despite resistance by religion. Scientific knowledge in such fields as cosmology, molecular biology, physics, or genetics has progressed to the point it is no longer comprehensible to most of humanity. For instance, from the approximately five billion world population, possibly several thousand individuals are aware the entire human genome will be sequenced in the next ten to fifteen years. Unfortunately, once knowledge leaves the world of pure science, it becomes the tool of powerful national and commercial interests, governed by greed, superstition and dependence on the supernatural, rather than rational thought.        Many, many more species have existed than are in existence now. They have become extinct because their genetic makeup did not allow them to adapt to changing conditions. H. sapiens, alone among all species, will be responsible, because of his genetic makeup, for changing conditions in such a way he can no longer exist. Mankind has changed the earth but will he be able to change himself? If not, it will not necessarily be a thermonuclear bomb which will destroy mankind, but its own innate qualities, those which enabled him to survive, but are now intolerable.        H. sapiens is the cause of the greatest plague the earth has seen.