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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, September 15th, 2021. Today is also the feast day of our lady of sorrows. This, of course, is a Marian feast day. And today is a great reminder that no matter what sort of pain or sorrows you might be carrying with you, Mary, our great mother in heaven understands. And she longs

to be near you and to comfort you. Now, Spruce, this week, we are talking about defenses for the existence of God,

clues that help us really know for certain that God exists.

Yesterday, we talked about the universe and how God must have began the universe.

Today, we're going to look at something a little bit smaller,

something you feel inside of you every day,

and this is common morality.

A morality can be used in lots of different ways, but the way we're using it today is that feeling inside of you

where you just know that something is either right or wrong. It can also be kind of called like our

conscience. Now, all people seem to sort of share a common set of morals. And if you have any

little toddlers in your family, you know this true. Even when they can just barely

know how to talk, they know that certain things are right and certain things are wrong.

If you try to take a toy from a toddler, what will they say? They'll say, that's mine. That's mine.

Right? They have this sense inside of them, even without being told that people should not take things that don't belong to them.

Also, let's say you're at the grocery store and there's a big line of people, people from all over the world speaking all different types of languages, super long line.

Now let's say that someone comes and tries

to budge toward the front of the line. What will everybody in line say, hey, you can't do that?

That's not fair. Right? The idea of cutting in front of people or cheating in any way,

we all feel this inside of ourselves that this is wrong.

Now, where does this sense of right and wrong come from? Some people say that it's something

we, you know, we're taught by our parents, that as we grow up, they teach us things, but

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