People still feel guilty, and with the same degree of shame, but it's about other things than they used to. Now, they feel guilty for being racist, sexist, or homophobic. This is the process of the secularization of Judeo-Christian values. It's not hard to see these "crimes against humanism" proceeding from "the direct legacy of the Judaic ethic of justice and the Christian ethic of love." A Christian-derived humanism can make universal human rights appeals in ways a parochial paganism never could and never wanted to.

Even Bush didn't justify his war in Iraq as a "crusade" but appealed to instead, to secular humanism's "human rights." Condi compared it to MLK's Civil Rights movement. In the end, liberal human rights humanists can be just as bent on domination and suppression as the Christians they came from. And, like the Christians, it's always for 'the best possible and most noble reasons."