Signs of the times.

This is a rather fine looking building, closed and shuttered, now in disuse.
It was undoubtedly a church, probably, I guess, Methodist.
Set me thinking on the changing world, the decline in churchgoing in this country and across Europe. Is this part of a great social revolution - or does it mark a decline in human values and virtue?
I cannot pretend to have an answer.
Yet we can easily see changes, carelessness and thoughtlessness that, arguably, may or may not be for the better, but do, certainly, threaten to contribute eventually to the extinction of not just humanity but all life on our planet.
Quite a proposition for debate.....and me a professed atheist!
Meanwhile, as we read and write, all around the world, conflicting beliefs and intolerances deriving from them are forever sources of so much barbarity and suffering: Israelis and Palestinians; Catholics and Protestants; Jews and Arabs; Sunnis and Shia; Kurds and Moslems; Hutu and Tutsi; North and South Koreans; and so on and so on ad nauseam : indulging killing and destruction everywhere in the name of irreconcilable ethnic and religious differences.
Humans are pretty well unique in the animal kingdom in being the only animals that persistently kill their own species...........try to wipe out whole populations of "different" others.
This church that once preached tolerance and love is derelict.