Sumptuous Planet (A Secular Mass): VII. Taking Away the Sins of the World. Sin

“Let us try to teach generosity ... because we are born selfish ... We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth ... deliberately cultivating and nurturing ... altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. ... we have the power to turn against our own creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. ... Let us under- stand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.”