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respect. It is necessary for an important country to show the way for others to follow, and France’s neighboring countries will not invade her just because she has abolished compulsory military service and is using her professional army in the service of the Europe that she is trying On the contrary, this would very quickly cause other countries to follow suit and pursue the same path taken by your country. Once Europe is united militarily, creating a single European currency can unite its economy. atl 1 wid woroy 1 1 11 Then the same process could be applied throughout the world, adding as we have already told you in the first message, a single world language that would become compulsory in every school on Earth. If one country must show the way, then France is that country. It is by advocating a “deterrent force” that we accumulate the arms of our With each country wishing to deter some other country, and in practice never quite knowing which one, an unfortunate action could then threaten to transform that “deterrent force” into a force of intervention, which could be fatal to the whole world. It is through the past that humanity views the future. This is a mistake. We should instead be critical of the past and build the c toe 1 1 town soe present for the future, rather than build the present on the basis of the past. You must understand that barely thirty years ago, people of countries that are now advanced were still primitive. You are only just emerging. There are millions of people on Earth who are still primitive and incapable of seeing something in the sky as anything other than a “divine” manifestation. Moreover, you know that deistic religions are still very strong in all the economically less-developed countries. You must not revere people for their age, but for their intelligence, while seeing to it that old people have a pleasant life. Our distant ancestors should not be respected, and furthermore they should be seen as an example of poor, limited, primitive people who were 152 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS then be the guardians of peace, a title deserving infinitely more to construct. own destruction.