in any case , surely in the immediate future with fewer physical burdens and more likelihood of individuals who are not felled in the negative vicissitudes of life living full and active lives until entropy at last sets in to a hurried demise and even a quicker hastening of the breakdown of this seemingly solid substance of man to the elements , as though god were on this planet and eager to erase the foolish cartoon he had doodled before someone important came along and saw it , the majority of individuals in developed countries in particular will no longer need archaic strictures meant to stay out of gods wrath or to delude themselves that they are communing with saints , prophets , and gods of yesteryear .