We spent the day in ethical pursuits: an Ethical Society colleague and I are developing a Sunday School curriculum based on the ethical issues in the Harry Potter series. We met this morning to discuss the curriculum. It will be available from the American Ethical Union, aeu.org, later this summer. Then I taught Sunday School -- Why do bad things happen? is the theme of the class. We discussed the idea of the Grim Reaper and how death fits into life. We talked about how you might think about death depending on whether or not you believe there is an afterlife.
But when we got home, we did the most ethical thing of all -- we took a couple of trash bags and went for a walk in the beautiful, 60-degree weather and picked up trash and recyclables. The kids got into it. My son Joe especially was willing to risk getting wet, dirty or worse to get trash out of the stream near our house. My daughter Jeannie is getting very good at flattening cans. Why did we do this? Because, as my daughter put it, we have to take care of our home, the earth. No god needed; no fear of punishment needed.
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