THE LIFE WE SEEK

The Life We Seek ~ 457 ~ society as a whole, but which contributed positively to the general good. Making eternity one’s goal results in harmony. The pursuit of false objectives can bring nothing but discord. In modern times, amazing advances have been made in the fields of medicine and surgery, claims having been made that science is able to control all diseases, with perhaps the single exception of cancer. Yet as science discovers cures for ancient diseases, new and often more terrible diseases appear which have to be contended with. The latest scourge, AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) has so far defied all medical attempts to quell it. People who contract this disease are often dead within just a few weeks, and its spread has begun to strike terror into the hearts of western civilization. Because of its origins in the kind of unnatural homosexual practices which are abhorred and specifically prohibited by religion, people have begun to think of it as a form of divine retribution which spares no one. “Be that as it may, there are other areas of physical and mental affliction for which science likewise