Yes, theres so much in this essay that is Christian propaganda claimed as truth in the name of science. I always have this feeling when I read Holland – his arguments are not to be trusted.

You seem to have missed the point. Even if altruism were a natural fact, it would remain just that – a fact. A fact, as Hume pointed out, is not a moral imperative.

Indeed, hence the Nazis and their fixation on familial lines of descent, eugenics, racial purity, and the improvement of the human species. You’re actually making the author’s case here. The idea of all human life having value, let alone equal value, or going beyond that, all life has value, is simply not scientific. The more we embrace reason in place of faith, the further we get from the underpinnings of the belief system that we’re, presumably, trying to sustain into the future and the more we open ourselves to purely materialistic arguments like those of Himmler, who calmly, rationally, using simple logic, made an argument that society should simply eliminate those who were undesirable, not just racial impurities but also the mentally ill, the disabled, the unintelligent, thereby purging these traits from the gene pool as much as possible. All the author is really saying is that there is no purely scientific justification for liberal western values that doesn’t involve feats of mental gymnastics that constitute as much of a leap of faith as believing in God or gods or nature spirits or w/e else.