Neil Postman wrote, “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” As a humanist, I don't have invisible gods or an afterlife to comfort

Neil Postman wrote, “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” As a humanist, I don't have invisible gods or an afterlife to comfort me into apathy about the human condition. If I want the world to be a better place, I have to make it so and having children is an important dimension to that. We've limited ourselves to two because my wife and I are both full-time software developers and we can't handle "being outnumbered" as we like to joke, but raising two boys is a remarkable experience. I've experienced many kinds of love in my life, love for family, romantic love for my wife, but this new kind of love for our children is so powerful and pure. It's so precious, drives me to be a better person for them, and I am so grateful to experience it.