Few people enjoy being self-critical more than the religious. Yes, we must be free to find a better compassion, but that better compassion does not come for free. The more self-cultivated compassion is only available when self-criticism is permitted into our personal and collective awareness.

Kant`s third antinomy points to the freedom generator, but what we discover is that freedom is not an absolute! Freedom requires self-criticism, otherwise citizens will never learn to be self-reliant. Without a deeply felt self-criticism we get only one-sided views, and find the example of the brainwashing of said secular humanism. That we reap what we sow is a conservative truth that is closer to realty than the classical liberal ideal of freedom for freedom`s sake.

This deeper ethic that is able to get beyond brainwashing has to do with feeling: it is a reconnecting with the empirical that brings reason back to what is starkly real; there can be no truth, if we don`t affirm our beliefs with an emotional investment. For example, we can understand the value of self-criticism directly, without all the meaningless words that rationalize and blind us of our errors, simply by listening to a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jt_urqVdik&feature=related