I cannot testify to the mind or word of god. Nor can I testify to the demonstrat

I cannot testify to the mind or word of god. Nor can I testify to the demonstrated capacity or record of anyone else in all of human history to do so. I can only testify to the laws of the universe we learn to understand, and that should god exist, then these are his laws. And while he does not speak to us in word or mind, or hand us these laws on tablets, we may, through our efforts, disover those laws we can testify to. And among these, the most sacred are the natural laws of cooperation, wherein we defend one another’s right to self determination by self determined means, by mutual ensurance of sovereignty in demonstrated interests, reciprocity in display word and deed, truth before face regardless of cost, and this sacred duty before self, family, kin, nation, or state. If there is a god, and he has will, then he has willed that we follow this law – or that his law of evolution erase us from existence so that others may do better than we have. For if we are his children, then our purpose is to rise to become worthy of our paternity.