Dalrock points out the recent change in the Girl Guides' vow. The organization, the UK's Girl Scouts counterpart, now asks girls to pledge to “be true to myself and develop my beliefs” in place of “love my God,” which itself replaces “do my duty to God.”
More than the devolution of the sentiment, it shows a destructive assumption our betters hold.
They seem to believe that there is a lowest common denominator to morality. If we simply remove the strictures of organized religion and other small-mindedness, we could all live happily by following our hearts.
If there is a universal bottom to human behavior, rules which come entirely from one's gut, then it's close to that which we see in the wilds of Afghanistan and the darkest regions of Darfur.
The lowest common denominator is very, very low. It's best that we never approach it.
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