An Upcoming Challenge for Secularists on Ethics

[T]hey've never faced the fact that while they've rejected so many other doctrines of their childhood preachers, altruism is the one they've never been willing to let go. -- Ben Bayer***While I cannot, off the top of my head, recall exactly where I first learned the above insight, I do recall seeing words to that effect by Ben Bayer and admiring what a great connection he had made. Bayer elaborates on that connection at length in the upcoming Breaking Free from Faith-Based Morality, which will be published by Ayn Rand University Press in December.In addition to its preface appearing at New Ideal, the book is available for preorder through Amazon.Below is the conclusion of a look at America's "culture-wide religious fervor," which emphatically includes the secular part of the left:I love the cover! (Image from Ayn Rand University Press, via New Ideal.) Each of the other [left-wing] activist movements demands similar Abrahamic submission. Whether we are to sacrifice economic prosperity…