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[Lee Berman]

> That's really the crux (heh) of it, for me.  The Sun series is all about what the universe would
> be like with no Christ. Answer- We'd really have pagan gods ruling us, vampires among us, foul,
> predatory monsters in the oceans, ghouls and human sacrifice and a lot of other nasty stuff that
> we Earthlings, blessedly, (mostly) only have in legends.
 
 
>David Stockhoff- Possibly. That seems a bit literal to me. One could go further and speculate that such 
>a universe is the one we  would experience, because we would create it ... because that is what we 
>perceive, being creatures of superstition with no higher wisdom to guide us. At best, we'd be dupes 
>in someone else's idea of progress, even if it helps us in the long run.
 
An excellent expansion and elaboration of my simplistic analysis. Please consider mine thusly expanded
and elaborated upon!