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It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and admit the purely human origins of all the precepts and regulations of civilization
That is why Europe's first secular and imperialist ruler Napoleon ostentatiously snatched the crown from the hands of the the bishop and placed it himself upon his head at the coronation ceremony. Symbolically, this represented liberals' hubristic presumption that they alone are the rulers of the universe and that they need no help from God, socialistic, individual hubris that presumes to the capacity to make up its own rules of morality is a prescription for anarchic demise."[http://www.republicanvoices.org/october_2005_newsletter.html][[http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2005/11/01/moral-models-from-mainstream-media/]]
That is why Europe's first secular and imperialist ruler Napoleon ostentatiously snatched the crown from the hands of the the bishop and placed it himself upon his head at the coronation ceremony. Symbolically, this represented liberals' hubristic presumption that they alone are the rulers of the universe and that they need no help from God, socialistic, individual hubris that presumes to the capacity to make up its own rules of morality is a prescription for anarchic demise."[http://www.republicanvoices.org/october_2005_newsletter.html][[http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2005/11/01/moral-models-from-mainstream-media/]]
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==Morality and society==
*In his book ''The Future of an Illusion'', [[Sigmund Freud]] said of religion and morality, “It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and admit the purely human origins of all the precepts and regulations of civilization.” [http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/05/14/the-hard-truth-about-a-soft-science-why-psychology-does-more-harm-than-good/]
== Morality and the Law<ref>This section copies, with permission, material in the ''Proceedings of the Friesian School'', available [http://www.friesian.com/moral-2.htm here].</ref> ==
== Morality and the Law<ref>This section copies, with permission, material in the ''Proceedings of the Friesian School'', available [http://www.friesian.com/moral-2.htm here].</ref> ==