Always has been my guiding principle for forty years to say 'Never trust a Christian.' Not once has ever Christian given me reason to change. - Daniel Quinn

One thing I know people will say to me is 'Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?'
"That of course is an inane idea," Ishmael said. "The Leaver life-style isn't about hunting and gathering, it's about letting the rest of the community live—and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter-gatherers."

Would the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God have sent his only-begotten son to save those beetles and their household mites, Jared?
"No."
"But the god of this place has as great a care for them as for any other creature in the world. This is why I knew you could benefit from seeing those beetles yesterday. Those beetles are a manifestation of the gods' unending abundance and a sign to be read by those who have eyes to read. I wanted you to see how the gods lavish care without stint on every thing: no less upon a beetle whose supreme achievement is burying a mouse than upon the brain of Einstein, no less upon a mite whose favorite dish is a fly's egg than upon the eye of Michelangelo."

The Leavers and the Takers are enacting two separate stories, based on entirely different and contradictory premises.