And yet we have no clear framework or set of rituals to guide us in our quest for goodness. Worse, people have a sense of guilt and sin, but no longer a sense that they live in a loving universe marked by divine mercy, grace and forgiveness. There is sin but no formula for redemption.

This is arguably the problem that got us into this mess in the first place. Go to church, sing the hymns, ask for forgiveness and you get an eternity of pleasure: abandon Church, work out your own ethics and deny God and you get an eternity of punishment. At no point is the punishment/reward first and foremost linked to good, moral behaviour. The Christian Church, throughout the period of increasing technology the author refers to, is primarily about obedience, not care for your fellow man. The redemption the author is referring to comes from prayer, worship and begging for mercy. What we need is compassion and abstinence, not worship and prayer.