defused, and Jesus is the one who graciously sacrificed himself to set us free. The grace of God in the gospel teaches us to hate sin. It teaches us to say ‘No’ to worldly passions. Grace gives the rationale for love. If atheism is true, and the universe is simply about blind impersonal evolution, then all of life is just a chance event, and love has no ultimate call on us over any other way of living. In fact the attitude of survival of the fittest and ‘looking after number one’ would seem to make