Liberty, then, can be seen as an evolutionary principle of human institutions resulting from man's apprehension of moral truths that facilitated the fulfillment of his goals in acting together with others. Viewed in this way, liberty is the right of belonging to a community in which the individual's fulfillment as a person can be achieved by the observance of his moral duties toward his neighbors. This view of morality cannot be founded on scepticism, nihilism, moral relativism, utilitarianism, humanism, or any sort of moral secularism founded on rational arguments of economic efficiency. In fact, these antireligious tendencies pose the danger of dehumanizing the person and dismantling the spontaneously evolved social orders by emphasizing egoism and material gains as the characteristic and mission of man. A social institution that regards, and indeed fosters, love as the basis for the connectedness of mankind is an institution that emphasizes the value of the human person in acting together with others.
Religion is the only social institution that affords such a moral role.
And only a religion that advocates moral virtue is a religion that aims to shape the ethos of a society toward the good. This is, after all, the essence of liberty.