(John 13:34) and “love your enemies” (Matthew 5:44). Such love is self-sacrificing.
Atheism, with its evolutionary rationale, says ‘love’ is nothing more than self-interest in increasing the chances of our genes surviving in our offspring or our close relatives.
Q: In the ‘struggle for survival of the fittest’, where is the basis for compassion?
Hitler’s death camps grew out of his desire for the ‘Aryan race’ to win the battle for ‘the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life’ (the subtitle to Darwin’s Origin)."
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