That’s why free speech is good, so idiots like Harris can show us all what they are: idiots.
Wesley Smith quoted Leon Kass last week:
How comforting to learn that morality is rooted in the fact that, thanks to our ability to see other persons' perspectives, no intelligent social agent has any grounds for privileging his own interests over theirs. How wonderful to learn that this cosmopolitan moral truth is supported by the discovery that we all share human DNA. Do the descendants of Darwin know nothing of competition and the survival of the fittest? Does their naturalistic morality really teach that it is immoral to "privilege" feeding my own children first? Or does not morality begin, rather, with the need to control nature, precisely in opposition to the excesses of naturally given self-love and love of one's own and (starting with toilet training) the unruliness of natural desires that embarrass rational self-command? Even leaving aside greed, cruelty, and natural lust, what about amour-propre--that natural form of comparative self-love found only among human animals and, famously, among scientists--that insists on recognition from and superiority to one's fellows?
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These guys focus on any negative thing they can find about religion, but they can't answer where we would be with out it. I'm sure that we would have killed ourself off about 600 years ago.