More people than ever before have forsaken religion - any religion. And even many of those who subscribe to a religious faith do so with much soul-searching. Whether we like it or not and whether we approve or not we are moving into an age in which the main religions (at least in the Western world, and probably further east too despite appearances) will cease to be the dominant factors informing the behaviour and criteria of 'the man in the street'.

The societies in which we live today show many signs that there is no common, widely agreed set of 'Does and Don'ts' which used to characterize organized religion. (For far too many people religious behaviour has already become just an habitual round of almost meaningless rites with no ethical content or - even worse - what many consider to be a warped ethical content.)

Human civilization cannot remain stable without generally agreed principles of what is required of the 'decent' person. What do you think are the essential qualities, values, behaviour-patterns that should be the content of the ethical (spiritual) heritage we pass on from this generation to the next?

Please respond to this question, and please don't consider at this stage the issue of probable success or failure. Just tell us what you think should be the values that inform our behaviour. If there is a good response to my request I shall take it a stage further later on. Oh, and also, don't be afraid to say something that someone else has already said: it will give us an idea of how widespread these views are.

Please do contribute to this survey. Thanks.