This is just one answer to the question: Are you civilized? Civilization is a higher order function than society. We need to decide as a species what we want as our global civilization. We have a global economy. We have (sort of) a global government. We definitely do no have a global belief system. But what if we did? What if we all belonged to the Church of Science? What if we said, 'Gods are nice ideas, but we can't trust any of them'. Since we don't have any evidence that any specific deity exists, what if we just ignore religion as a justification for behavior? What if to be member of a new global civilization you just have to embrace one idea: We are all evolving social primates trying to survive on the only planet we have. We accept the knowledge derived from science that tells us about our evolutionary history. We can accept the knowledge we get from science, and figure out how to make the world a better place for all of us.

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