When asked to name the greatest commandment, Jesus picked two. “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind,” he says in Matthew 22. “This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Yet, according to humanitarianism, we ought only to love our neighbor, with no regard for love of God. Humanitarianism is the subject of Daniel Mahoney’s book “The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity,” which has been remarkably well-received, as I noted here. Mahoney recently appeared on the Patrick Coffin Show where he discussed significant differences between a morality motivated solely by love of Humanity and the saintliness and ultimate deification that comes from Christianity.
