The moral animal

A letter, to the NYTimes:


To the Editor;

Thanks are in order for Jonathan Sacks.  His insight ("The moral animal" December 24, 2012) can help us to celebrate the humanity in this season.

And yet, his comment, "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age"  demonstrates the irony of modern personal salvation. Spiritual evangelicals of all faiths, including that of reason, engage in an other-directed and community-minded action for the sake of the enlightened self-interest.  In this new age of accumulative theology, we consume belief in order to better our selves.