Human selfishness need not to be directed only toward material values. The Bible describes to us how the Jews of Jesus' time were the slaves of their religion. They were known for their readiness to live and die for their faith. They were waiting for Messiah and when He finally appeared among them, they were not able to recognize Him.

Since they were looking for their spiritual salvation in their religious activities, they were not ready to recognize him in Jesus Christ. They blindly and fanatically obeyed to the system of their religious codes and had forgotten Who was their religious system pointing at.

By His simple and irreproachable life, Jesus "touched" their self- righteous religiousness. In order to remove the reprimand directed to their religious fanaticism, Jews blamed Him for acting against the integrity and interests of the Hebrew religion and nation. Archpriest Caiaphas said for Jesus:

"It is more to your interest that one man should die for the people, than that the whole nation should be destroyed." (John 11:50)

Later on, when Jesus was brought before Pilate with the demand that He be crucified, the Hebrew leaders manifested how their love toward their people was a hypocritical one:

"Pilate said to the Jews, 'Here is your king.' They shouted, 'Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!' 'Crucify your king?' said Pilate. 'We have no king but Caesar', the Jews replied." (John 19:15)

Christ was blamed for jeopardizing the survival of the Hebrew people, and then, contrary to their belief, they betrayed the interests of their people claiming that they did not have another king except Caesar. In their fanaticism they were ready to live and die for their faith but not for God as well.

Proud and selfish man can be a slave to his moral values, too. When those values are violated by his carelessness, he can, deeply hurt and disappointed, commit suicide. He may have seemed as a man who loved himself much but, in fact, he loved his values, not himself.

A nationalist is a slave of the values of the nation he belongs to. He seems to be patriot, ready to live and die for his brethren. However, he does not prefer a man to his moral values. He will sacrifice his life for the preserving of his national alphabet, as if he existed because of it and not conversely. A man is, of course, more important than his national values. For he does not exist because of it, but conversely.

When an average young man describes the reasons he loves his girl, he underlines her values: goodness, intelligence, beautiful eyes, hair, clothes etc. The values that can represent the provocation for expressing the real love get a role of the foundation, i.e. the cause of his (selfish) love for her. The young man thinks that he loves his girl, however, if in his mind the expected idea about her values is disturbed, he will lose the motive of his love for the girl. He loves his values, and not her. He is with her because of himself not because of her.

Here we meet selfish love which always demands the cause of love for somebody or something. And so the cause becomes more important than the person whom we "love". Because we find the cause for the love in adequate man's values, they will be more important for us than the man himself. We will tend to sacrifice even himself for the reasons we "love" him for.

We see again how the selfish motives induce a man to behave inappropriately to his real interests and see how human motives of the behavior refute the theory of natural selection and evolution. Instead of permitting God to change their nature (heart), many are satisfied by a Satan-offered change in the sphere of feelings and experience.