The left's persistent assault on moral values. That is, ... Repulsed by such egalitarian, anti-"judgmental" absurdities, many people disavow what they regard as leftism's essence: secularism, and turn to religion for their value...
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[CapMag.com]Does morality depend upon religion? Most people believe it does, which is a major reason behind the appeal of the religious right. ... There is indeed morality without religion--a morality, not of dogmatic commands, but of rational values and of unbreached respect for the life of the individual.
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4. CHAPTER 4: DOES MORALITY DEPEND ON RELIGION? 4.1. The Presumed Connection Between Morality and Religion; Who are generally considered to be the moral leaders in our time? The general consensus points to religious leaders.
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The Christian Coalition thinks so. The founding fathers and many of the world's great thinkers disagree. The Christian Coalition is now one of the fastest-growing political forces in America. This conservative Christian organization has pro...
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・ This is the most important section in the chapter. In this section, Rachels’s strategy is to argue ... ・ The general theory is the thought that what is right is what God commands (or has commanded), and what ... ・ The first interpretation...
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1. The Presumed Connection between Morality and Religion ... In popular thinking, morality and religion are inseparable: People commonly believe that morality can be understood only in the context of religion. So because the clergymen are the spokesmen for religion, it is assumed that they must be spokesmen for morality...
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Would like to know if Religion fosters morality or ... Must morality depnd on religion exclusively? Not necessarily, but it is hard to think of one signficant moral tradition or belief (e.g., don't steal, don't kill) that is not rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Moral Values do not Require Gods or Religion: A popular claim among religious theists is that atheists have no basis for morality — that religion and gods are needed for moral values. Usually they mean their religion and god, but sometimes they seem willing to accept any religion and any god.
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Rachels Chapter 4; Does Morality Depend on Religion? ... Suppose the latter: it's good because God commands it: makes morality unacceptably arbitrary ... this realization does not depend on assuming that Christian belief is false...
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Does Morality Depend on Religion? 4.1 The Presumed Connection between Morality and Religion; • Separation of Church and State; – Roy Moore and the ACLU; • Priests and ministers as moral experts; • Belief that morality can only be understood through religion;
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