Too often groups create policy or action that withholds the rights of others based upon personal or religious preferences. Individuals should be free to live based upon individual or group ethics, but prohibited from that expression when it deny's another their own rights.

Establishing criteria to measure the effect of a decision on the least fortunate should be the rational basis of all group decisions. Ensuring that society benefits all, and not the affluent minority is the ethical thing to do.

The belief in a material afterlife is beyond outdated. The concept of eternal pleasure as reward or eternal torture as punishment needs to replaced by the understanding of heaven or hell as the last thought a person having when they die either being satisfaction or regret.