The massive cries resonate in the beer halls,

in the concert stands and bandshells, in the memorials and in the gun-barrels and oil-fires of our angry and chaotic world; but where is our humanity? Where is our Enlightenment? Will we regress from humanism into pure rage and religious fundamentalism across this tiny globe, erasing the progress of former centuries, and allow the world to melt around us? What will stop the tide that came in first on this day in the 2001 year? Religious extremism, without check by reason and natural law, will tear the world down if we let it. The most terrifying condition of this whole mess is that more and more in droves, Americans themselves are embracing extremist fundamentalism. Even though it is not fundamentalist Islam, the new American religion of "Rage" is just as dangerous.