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201 True religion is about forming communities around shared values, argued essayists Philip Blond and Adrian Pabst. By contrast, secular liberalism remains blind to cultures built around universal ideals and collective aspi- rations.** The search for extraterrestrial intelligence may be unique among scientific fields in sustaining a community with a grand shared vision of sentience in the universe, a vision that rests on belief. Filling a Philosophical Vacuum