From a reader:

Your logical construction as always is dead on here with Kerry and his faith.
You are without doubt my favorite pundit, needs saying cause now I’m gonna rip you on this one bud.
You would rather drop a bowling ball on your foot rather than admit that a higher power than homo sapien sapiens is required for morality to even exist. If this world is an accident and life the same then there is NO morality. It’s all just choices. I read dozens of perfectly logical points from you totally in denial of this while being internally consistent otherwise.
However you repeatedly try to add a dash of morality to your very pretty, tight, and concise logic thus often ruining them, because, you have not thought that, the morality you are trying to add can only come from said higher power and we must all agree on what said higher power has or has not told us about whatever your issue is. Yet you try to add it in ala carte and without mentioning what references or lack thereof from this creator(s) you are referring to.
You ask the folks to accept that say murder is wrong without backing why. This may sound dumb but the fact of the matter is that is utterly unacceptable to appeal to this morality in a vacuum. You, Jonah Goldberg do this ENDLESSLY. I agree vast majorities of us accept my example here as morally wrong but even in the example of murder, let alone when you try to add morality to vastly grayer issues, it strikes me as tremendously weak in this day and age of the 10 commandments being barred from court rooms and suit after suit from atheists trying to keep even the word God from being mentioned on the street, that you see fit to not show where your moral arguments are based.
You would NEVER find it acceptable if you were talking about economics to leave loose ends unsupported. You would NEVER find it acceptable if you were making arguments about the relative merits of which Simpson’s season is the best. You would NEVER find it acceptable if you were making logical statements concerning any major issue of our time.
Please, please, please quit appealing to something called morality without backing up what you are saying. The problem is of course what it has been for all of human history. If you make an appeal based on the creator of the universe you may get hugely different interpretations of whether the communications you are speaking of are from the true God(s) or even if we agree there are being correctly interpreted by you.
The thing that gets me you would never do this if we were discussing Locke. You would mention the passage, give it context, and make statements concerning their meaning in the modern world.
You NEVER do this with morality because you know the pitfalls and just want a sharp looking, sweet smelling garnish for your dishes, and don’t want to spend all day slaving for it.
In the words of David Alan Grier to Jim Carrey playing you and me in the car trying to sing R.E.S.P.E.C.T.:
For God’s sake, STOP IT!