A healthy set of religious values, so they say, is necessary to having a solid moral center,

to know good from evil, right from wrong.

Only within the context of religion do such values exist and have any meaning.

But then again, how true is it?

Are there really moral positions that can be held by religious people that cannot be held

by the non-religious?

It's coming up next, Unskeptoid.

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Religion as a moral center.

Today we pull open the drawer in the motel bureau and face the need to have a moral center,

that core set of beliefs and ethics that governs the way we conduct ourselves and live our lives.

Whatever your beliefs may be, I happen to be non-religious.

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