The Importance of Individual Freedom

At the very center of ethics is the demand for agape or divine love for unselfish, self-forgetful love of neighbor. The idea that each human being that can say I can do so only because he is created in God's image isn't a uniquely Christian idea. Even Muslims don't believe that, although they believe much of the rest of Judeo-Christian theology. In most Hindu and Buddhist traditions you have to be free from not only selfish desire but also mistaken thought.