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Excellent thought piece about how much of humanist ethics is still enmeshed in anti-religious thinking. One avenue that humanists could explore is the human capabilities approach like Sen or Nussbaum advocates. Some of this literature is Kantian in tone with its underlying commitment to human dignit...

I appreciate this article and I think the basic point is one that I can agree with. However, there are some issues with this particular argument. First, Christianity never speaks with one voice, which I think the author acknowledges. But even lumping conservative Christians together as a group may b...