“There is only our natural world.”
The natural world is a very cruel and hard place.
I disagree. It is, however, utterly indifferent.
Nature is pure war, with every man against another. Fear of death is the only way to keep peace; so now man is only civilized by the restraint of violence against him for transgressions upon his neighbor.
So long as there is someone willing to pay, there will always be someone willing to collect... The issue for most has now become who holds the collection plate in their temples for the god of communism or the gods of their false religions.
Morality and all of its associated ideals are rooted entirely in a presupposition some higher power defines what is correct for human behavior.
And since so many men falsely believe they are divine just because their weenies come from heaven, they also think this gives them some sort of God given right to arbitrarily destroy the lives of others.
It was Moses who first introduced the idea that our rights do not come from an earthly monarch. Our whole system of justice is based on the laws of Moses, something the lawyers have worked very hard to destroy.
Try getting anyone to admit this, especially in the courts or in the various self-serving sectarian cults we commonly call churches...
Martin Luther should have also posted his letter on the doors of the courthouse.