Belief and trust in God has diminished to the point where in order to protect immediate freedoms society prefers to allow the murder of its children . We set speed limits, promote safety laws at home and in the work place, regulate food processing, have health departments, set restrictions on where one can smoke, force manufactures to install safety devices in automobiles and then fine the occupants if they don't use them. We are concerned about visible injury and death in the apparent belief that it will help us to live forever. But, we have no problem allowing billions of unseen persons to be murdered because it is believed that we will not be affected by their deaths. Society is not only selfish but is without spiritual compassion for the defenseless.
Society is cowardly as well as selfish and greedy.
God has shared everything, including His only Son , that we might in the end have everything. It is a form of sharing that is its own reward. It is appalling not to have money spent on space travel when there are so many planets throughout the galaxy and universe available for habitation . A century ago self-propelled heavier than air flying machines were considered far fetched, if not impossible. In an age when man has walked on the moon and lives in an orbital space station, using a rocket fueled shuttle craft for transport to and from the Earth, galactic travel should not be considered as being remote or impossible.