Our “twin towered” society

Because the world should have more than one language, and the freedom of uncommon speech.

In 1651, Thomas Hobbes rightly understood the natural state of man:
…no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

We built tools to overcome that “natural state”, and can now indulge such esoteric thought as this bit of pointy-headed pomposity, on the nature of art by the German philosopher Theodor Adorno:
As a result of its inevitable withdrawal from theology, from the unqualified claim to the truth of salvation, a secularization without which art would never have developed, art is condemned to provide the world as it exists with a consolation that—shorn of any hope of a world beyond—strengthens the spell of that from which the autonomy of art wants to free itself.

One tower was built upon this, from about 2000 years ago:
The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

Our other tower was built upon this: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…”

Our twin towers remain separate, but equal, and equally threatened.
Because a new “natural state” approaches. If we refuse to understand this, from 1300 years ago, and yesterday, our children will understand:

[8.12] When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

Our twin towers do not reach the heavens. But they do extend our grasp.
We reach, ever.
But we are ever threatened. Some Muslims want to destroy our towers and bind us, defeat us, as their god commands.
We have lost the ability to understand “as their god commands.” Doing evil is something outside our secular logic. Doing evil is something outside our religious sense.
In their god there is but one common language, and no uncommon speech.
Their “god” does not seem to have them act in their best interests. They do not seem to act in their own best interests.
But we should act in ours.
Because if “cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve” prevails, our twin towers will fall once more.