I have written this on another thread, and you have prompted me to repeat it:
The Left's culture is based upon moral relativism. It is a very seductive morality because it functions as a self centered pursuit of pleasure. Moral relativism is a set-up for Marxism. By making ones moral thinking no more important than the other you set the stage for political, economic, legal and material egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is a system which renders human beings as equal. To reach such a Utopian society, one utilizes the state to redistribute all aspects of human life until all are equal.
Just a side light: The goal of gay marriage is the egalitarian treatment of human relationships. When the gay relationship is equal to the heterosexual relationship, the egalitarian objective is accomplished.
The opposition by the gay community and their abortionist cohorts to the Christian Church is an effort to transform society by either eliminating or retooling the Church. When you put everything they are doing into one description, they are minimizing the importance of life that is produced by the relationship between a man and a woman. Once life is redefined by the egalitarian paradigm, life does not have any more protection or significance than that which is determined by the state. Life produced by a man and a woman no longer have that level of significance that our culture has given it through the ages. This is a part of the Marxist strategy. Human life must no longer have that transcendent importance that sets it above the state. Human life is now the property of the state to define as it wants and to use as it sees fit.
As the love relationship of heterosexual marriage and the beginning of human life are being attacked by the Marxist's effort to transform our society, one can only wonder what's next?
re: The transcendence of humanity.
I got this condensed viewpoint from “Thinking Like a Christian”, Noebel.
Atheists (and Marxism, which uses which?) believe that human life is an accident of evolution, that the human exists for ~70 years then ceases to exist, and that the human is basically good and only chooses bad behavior due to something wrong in society. Society, therefore, since it transcends the individual human, has much more importance than the individual, and society is to be perfected in order to perfect the individuals in it.
This leads to pragmatism that causes massive loss of life, if that life is deemed to not be contributing to the perfection of society.
The Christian worldview is that the human is the crowning glory of God’s creation, made in His image, with eternal existance. The individual human, therefore, transcends and is more important than the temporal society in which he lives. The actions and behaviors of the individual affect society, but the state of society has little to do with the choices the individual makes.
Also, Man is Fallen, is in a sinful state, and therefore, is imperfectible. Putting too much power into the hands of too few of these imperfect and imperfectible humans is dangerous, as history has shown.
In summary, atheism and its requisite beliefs have a wrong view of the human condition, and this view leads to tragedy on a massive scale.
The Christian view of the human condition fits reality, and is therefore correct, and leads to the best possible living condition for individual free humans.