The choice is to establish status levels for the relationship between ourselves and God that will carry over into maintaining our status levels of worth for others or to rid ourselves of the status levels between ourselves and God, which will force us to abolish the status levels of worth we have created between ourselves and others. We are not prone to change if we are not forced to do so. We have, to date, escaped the historical inevitability of collapse, but we have paid a price for it. Although we have made many advances in our knowledge regarding technology and understanding the universe within which we travel, we have not made much progress in terms of society and social structure. The pattern is repeated throughout space.
Color is no longer much of a social consideration, nor is gender.
Intelligence, occupation, and economics have finally evolved to center stage regarding social status. They have been reduced again to the level of finding themselves barely able to maintain a living as they shoulder the burden of society's abuse and drudgery. Over the last seven hundred fifty years, society has not changed much. Cities have their glittery wealthy sections, but these are barricaded and walled off from the common element. Well-guarded entrances allow the passage of workers to enter and exit daily into the isolated islands established for the protection of the elite.