Not worship........ simply respect

There are some who find themselves seeing a gradual change in people, and the religions pulling together, because they have noted differences are not the answer, and only do as they have always done, tear our species apart. In fact there is no need for worship at all, just respect.

I am not certain that worship is a good word because it places ourselves below something else and therefore gives us the feeling of both powerlessness as well as thinking something else will come along and fix the problems we make. I think respect is better. Respect for self, because that is what we know, respect for others of our species because they can be mostly presumed to be like ourselves, respect at the same level for all other things; even though we have a lesser knowledge of same. Assuming that any mother, a mother rat or a mother emu, even though the latter leaves her eggs and when they hatch, her chicks to be tended by their father, feels the things of motherhood. That is why the latter picked the male with whom she would mate; her responsibility and care was no less, though she made it for the very moment and hoped it would move into the future as she saw it. A bit different in humans probably, where women pick the male they admire/love, and know they will themselves look after their children as best they can. Then all the different scenarios that orbit round those feelings and habits.

The same can be said for sating hunger, feeding our children, making the most of opportunity and so on. All species have this in some degree, but humans have the power to change things in a huge way in our quest for these natural drives because of our numbers and our technology. Humans are not more clever, because if we were that, we could have all our species living well, and interfere hardly at all with other species on the planet for which we should show the same respect we do to ourselves and our own.

Maybe not in our lifetime, but eventually it will all come back to simple centre, because that is the last refuge for our race and the world while we live in it. Because the world, the universe will continue after our species has ceased to survive. We either respect all things, even those we don't understand or our species will perish, be exterminated the same way we have exterminated other species, without aforethought or consideration. Nothing is more certain. We have lived by the destruction of the environment sword which satisfies our greed and wield it still, and with that knowledge our end can be foretold.