Whether we believe in a god or no god, many of us live with a desire for common good. We want to help others besides helping ourselves and our near and dear. We want to give something back, for we realize we have taken something away for our personal use. But to whom or to what we are in debt we cannot agree about that. We want to be good, but we cannot agree about why we want to be good. We want to die peacefully and gratefully, with fulfilled aims, whether we believe in a supernatural deity or not. This common desire for good is what unites a severely fractured world. Let our beliefs in god or no god not prevent us from holding on to the basic thing that unites all human beings. Let us not widen the fractures that are already there. Let us walk toward one another and cross over the fractures.