Big words mean so much to a few, but very little to most. The main difference between children and adults is their attitude to the result of making a mess. Everyone makes a mess sometimes, through ignorance or mistake. Animals don't know they've made a mess. Children feel unable to clear it up.
Adults like to clear up their own messes out of self pride.
Parents have to clear up the messes of their children and themselves. Conservationists aspire to cleaning up the messes of everyone. Asking someone if they believe in God is akin to asking if they believe in metaphors. The trouble with writing a computer program is that there are so few people to blame when it fails. Having broken their promises, the stupidity of a politician is in proportion to their feigned surprise when their integrity is impugned.