And if that society falls apart in the process, so be it.” A sweeping indictment, indeed!īut any reasonably informed individual is aware of Fox’s heavily biased, right-wing agenda, and its various commentators all seem well-rehearsed in attacking humanism as immoral, even bordering on the sociopathic. For example, as quoted by Michael Gaynor, O’Reilly claims that “patriotism, spirituality, respect for authority, and basic moral values are all under siege from a well-funded, secular lobby that envisions a society free of judgments about personal behavior.
To them, humanists care only about self-gratification and feel no concern, no responsibility, for the world they live in.
Assuming some sort of ultimate moral authority, pundits from Bill O’Reilly to Glenn Beck to Sean Hannity to Ann Coulter to Rush Limbaugh all glibly characterize contemporary humanism as bereft of any acceptable (i.e., God-approved) system of ethics.
To commentators on Fox News, this is a no-brainer: humanism is completely hedonistic.
