The killing fields, the gas chambers, the medical experiments of Dr. Mengele - we have tools available today that could make those all look like a summer picnic.

Men has killed men as far as collective memory can reach. I think the Genesis account of the "fall" describes accurately the underlying, terrible truth of the human condition. The temptation was to become like God to determine "good and evil," to determine morality, unbound by any external force.

When man is given the power to determine his morality, it seems that we always choose the sublime rather than the sacred.