People are living in times when fear often trumps all other emotions. The ability to increase trust between people by diminishing the fear they feel toward each other can be the key to a happy and successful life. Many of the controversies seen in schools over curriculum are really about protecting personal values. The irony in this is that people cannot save or protect themselves through isolation. They cannot help their children by shielding them from a dangerous and difficult world. They have to give them the tools they need to engage successfully. The further irony is that one of the greatest tools for fighting danger is by increasing one's trust of others. For it is only by doing so that people gain the support they need to move from isolation to integration. The greatest irony in all of this is that much of it has been couched in religious terms. Many battles in the society have been drawn up as battles based on religious teaching, such as evolution versus intelligent design. Yet the only way through this morass is by having more faith--more faith in each other to work through the problems and more faith in each other that people are mostly driven by good intentions, even if they live in an imperfect world. Increased faith will release the fears and that might be the best drug yet for building trust.