People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?

The Sky Is Not Falling: Living Feaerlessly in These Turbulent Times (ed. Worthy Publishing, 2011) - ISBN: 9781617950155