Growing older, so many things concrete crumble and re-emerge pliable. Too many to list. But a major one stands out to me: the ridiculing of religion, that liberal current that remained in me to discount and mock believers. While extremism deserves no defense, and shall get none here, it strikes me as crudely arrogant to view believers as backwards and un-modern. Perhaps, I would say probably, it's better to feel not at the apex of the universe, but a single and no more important part of the whole than any other dear living thing. Whether science can show or not, it seems to me that a healthier moral attitude emerges when one imagines that enough book learning can give one everything, that the soul is second to the mind. While I've no name for what I feel is higher, and need none, it still strikes me that more humility can often be found among those that believe than one that uses chemistry sets to mock systems of morals and standards. It's not unlikely that there is no higher power- but no soul or morals?