What I think about when teaching abc's

Have you ever wondered if the onset of the end was brought about by the mass adoption of "modern" religion?
I had the thought that previous incarnations of human civilization had been paying their respects to the elements or animals in some form or another, making the extinction of a possible diety religious treason. But in the modern expression of religion, the object of worship is an expression of consciousness. A being, that is able to be in all places at once, but leaves us with the idea that we are of its image. We assume of course that this makes it somehow humanistic. Which leaves us preserving ourselves and the poor cow gets the chop.
This prioritization of our own species has lead to the reckless manner in which we improve our standard of living at the detriment of all other things including the water we drink, the air we breathe, the soil we tread and the food we eat. All of this to an extent that 8,000 years of civilization has never (to our knowledge) done previously. Perhaps the practical realization of the apocalypse well be induced by the fear of it.
The anticipation of another environment in the afterlife has to catalyze the disregard for the current to some extent.
One wonders if the example of the golden cow was to dissuade us from prioritizing a single element over all elements, the holy spirit being all things in existence.
Perhaps the line about man being created in the image of god was referring to our level of responsibility for our world, or was added in to make it easier to illustrate the children's editions.
Or it all could just be a coincidence. Nevertheless, I now have one more way to make myself less popular at dinner parties.