Godliness

"Consider the structure of a molecule.  Some small, relatively solid bits are held together closely by invisible forces... 

researchers have attempted to catalogue these forces by pitting them against one another.  Physics experiments are like cage matches to determine which bonds will break when particles collide.... 

We may not have survived the success of our civilizations without these detailed catalogues of small, solid parts. 

"But now the planet itself is becoming saturated with small, solid parts.  We have broken the bonds that nature made between atoms and created our own molecules, some for communication, some for consumption.  And the compounds we have created are too dense for the winds of change to pick up and carry away.... 

Now, piles of relatively small, solid parts lie in pockets of the Earth, sent to rest on the cheapest land in the world. This industrial waste, once it is considered obsolete, forms obstacles for the people who live there.  We call these global villages, where our trash finds its final rest, ghettos.

Is it any wonder that, stifled by our scrap materials, these people begin to collect those of our small, solid parts called bullets?"