Any approach less sensitive to our heritage would border on latent hostility toward religion. Footnotes and citations omitted. Footnotes and citations omitted. Simply because for many years it has been commonly taught that life is a random, accidental phenomenon with no meaning except the purely materialistic one.
Laws are merely a matter of human expediency.
Since humans are allegedly accidents, so are their laws. If man cannot know, according to a higher law, what is just or right in a given situation, he cannot protest and criticize legitimately any particular course of action as unjust. 1990 Burke, Thomas J., Jr., ed.