We are one among the many species that nature has bequeathed out of LUCA

 

Most aspects of most religions, by themselves, are irrelevant to living a life, some that are specifically harmful to our species itself, then such aspects must be done away with, or the perpetrators and promoters of such aspects have to be dealt with properly for a safer life of our species. 

 

We are one among the many species that nature has bequeathed out of LUCA. Nothing more or great. 

 

Because we, human beings are different only in the fact that we have  "conscious memory to record" ( every word and all the words within the quotation mark are most vital- because these are the better part of advanced faculties of human brain) multiple moments of our life as a species, its actions, thoughts, experiences and the overall knowledge gained from all these and in addition, verbalise ( nowadays digitized) or use multiple means of documenting our life experiences ( good, bad , ugly all) for posterity to use as a reference manual, to lead life with more refinement, sophistication and civilizational ethical values to live as rational, humane social creatures.  

 

These have facilitated us, unlike other species , with enormous time i.e., mind space to think about, to create, to imagine, to innovate, to improve and to develop overall our faculties for various activities beyond and besides, mere food and sex ( even here lot of sophistication beyond mere instant gratification to minimise violence and to ensure the welfare of the whole species).

 

These have enabled us to venture into various domains that other unfortunate, descendants of LUCA do not have and to work on various activities to make life of our species more comfortable, intelligent, enjoyable, peaceful, and purposeful to ensure a 'safe and sensible cohabitation' aware of nature based  inevitable varieties, differences among us. 

 

For these, we have constantly, evolved, and enacted,  through mutual agreement, various rules, and regulations as per evolving contexts of changing times and concomitant demands of adjustments.

 

When these fundamental mutually agreed rules of the species are violated by members of the species itself, then those members will get removed for species survival. This has been the law of nature, and it may eventually happen but during the process the species will end up paying a heavy price. 

 

But human species' claim  of intelligence must  ensure this happens faster, paying a lesser price.

 

There is no point in using contrived justification to ignore reality.

 

Already our species has paid a heavy price to Crusades, Inquisitions, Nazism, Colonialism and Communism.  

 

Do we want to allow one more ideology that may end up destroying us and many other species to continue, if yes, then, of what use is our collective intelligence and the failure to learn from history/.