Without God, it’s harder to defend against eugenics – UnHerd February 17, 2020 by Fulcrum But without God to tell us why it is wrong to breed humans like cows, it is (though, again, not impossible) far more difficult to argue against it. Dawkins’ resort to the phrase ‘heaven forbid’ underlines the way in which our post-religious abandonment of any shared source of moral authority leaves us struggling for concise language in which to reject moral atrocities such as eugenics. Mary Harrington. UnHerd. 17 February 2020 FulcrumShareTweetShare