The Challenge
Our greatest challenge, however, will be to provide hope for generations bred and raised in the deteriorating flesh of the fallen fruit of knowledge that modern culture has become. We have deprived our progeny of hope. We've done this by talking about the environment in terms of "fire and brimstone" while simultaneously doing nothing to reverse our steady march into the cauldron. Our children believe us when we predict the end of the world at our own doing. They see it happening all around them. More than the older generations, they recognize that our only hope of survival following a worldwide ecological collapse is to go to outer space. The Movement will give them a place to direct their hope.
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[Our Movement is devoted] to preserving Life--the wonder of it, the joy of it, the mystery of it, the uniqueness of it. To honoring it in all of its forms. Not the life of any individual, for individuals are only transitional manifestations of Life. Life is our God. Not you, nor me, nor the cow I will not eat, nor the grain of wheat I will. Life is so much bigger and better than its representatives. Life as God so much more clearly explains the phrase "Man was made in God's image." Every living creature is made in God's image. Life is God. And we must save it. For it is surely threatened, and we are both its greatest threat and the only hope it has. And we will save it by turning a tragic ending into a new start. It is our only option, so we do not so much end this treatise as set out on the next phase. Hence:
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