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Harris rejects the moral authority of religion, and points to what he sees as failures or misplaced priorities, for example saying that "The Catholic Church is more concerned about preventing contraception than preventing child rape".<ref name="Salon" />
 
Harris also criticizes [[Cultural relativism|cultural]] and [[moral relativism]], arguing that it prevents people from making objective moral judgments about practices that clearly harm human well-being, such as [[female genital mutilation]]. Harris contends that we can make scientifically- based claims about the negative impacts of such practices on human welfare, and that withholding judgment in these cases is tantamount to claiming complete ignorance about what contributes to human well-being.<ref name="Salon" />
 
===Free will===