Apologies in advance for a religious post. I think it's important I study philosophy as every time our discovery of science advances, our religion takes a step

Apologies in advance for a religious post. I think it's important I study philosophy as every time our discovery of science advances, our religion takes a step back, taking back its wisdom. We're all different, and yet we will accept many beings can experience life in the same form we can - we see, hear, touch, taste, smell, feel. I think if we don't discriminate between humans & non-humans, then we won't have problems between different varieties of humans. http://www.taoism.net/ttc/complete.htm http://www.taoism.net/ttc/complete.htm When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises When it knows good as good, evil arises Thus being and non-being produce each other Difficult and easy bring about each other Long and short reveal each other High and low support each other Music and voice harmonize each other Front and back follow each other Therefore the sages: Manage the work of detached actions Conduct the teaching of no words They work with myriad things but do not control They create but do not possess They act but do not presume They succeed but do not dwell on success It is because they do not dwell on success That it never goes away How I understand the "God created man in His own image, in the image of God" saying is: We're all shards of the same universe, each of us representing different facet of that universe. As Carl Sagan once said, "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself.". So when I'm interacting with someone, or a cat, or a tree, I sometimes feel like I'm seeing one side of, well, One.