We can do better.

“...and it is love that will echo through eternity.” (spoken by nurse Jenny Lee in the BBC period drama "Call the Midwife,"although it has been spoken by countless others throughout time).

Navajo cross, turn of the 20th century

Pueblo double-barred, or dragonfly, cross, turn of the 20th century

So this needs to be said, again and again. If the book of moral imperatives—the Christian faith calls this the Holy Bible—and the church whose doors we frequent teaches anything other than the truth that we are here on this earth for one reason—to care for and look after one another, blood kin or other—then we need to give a closer look at the book and at the church.