Many humanist concepts such as civil liberties, separation of church and state, moral equality, sexual permissiveness, right to choose, right to die and so forth appear to the human intellect to be reasonable and acceptable. There seems to be no inherent harm intended, so people can feel free to follow and espouse these values without spiritual consequence. Disagreement is portrayed as denying basic human rights. We have free will, after all, and the right to express it as we see fit. So humanist values, with their apparent rightness, routinely go unquestioned and unchallenged. But when we
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