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HunterBrown1968
12-16-2007, 08:43 PM
"We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole word--all living things.......Having taken godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility we once prayed some deity to have. Man has become our greatest hazard and are only hope."