To use Richard Dawkin’s justly famous metaphor, “memes” like “human rights” and “human dignity” may not indefinitely continue replicating themselves once the Christian “infinite value of every life” meme has died out.

To use Richard Dawkin’s justly famous metaphor, “memes” like “human rights” and “human dignity” may not indefinitely continue replicating themselves once the Christian “infinite value of every life” meme has died out.

—David Bentley Hart (p. 237)