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I'm Keith Simon.

Marilyn Voss-Savant was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest

IQ ever measured. I used to read her weekly column and Parade magazine when I was a kid. The column was called

Ask Maryland and she'd answer people's questions that they sent in and those

questions usually were logic problems or puzzles or math problems but one time a reader asked a more philosophical question, he asked,

what do you think is the source of moral authority?

Saivott replied, most people find the source of moral authority in their religions,

but I don't.

Instead she said she looks to the lessons of history which offer her the advantage

over a religion in the sense that she got to pick and choose what she liked.

In essence the source of moral authority for

Maryland Voss-Savant is, now wait for it, the source of moral authority is

Marilyn Vosavant. She is her own moral authority and that in a nutshell is the

predicament of the world we live in. In this predicament it isn't new. In one of the

darkest moments in Israel's history it it says in judges 21, all the people did

whatever seemed right in their own eyes. Whether it's thousands of years ago in the

ancient Near East or today in our own country, there's the belief that I am my own moral authority.

That never turns out well.

It's where we are.

If you doubt that, listen to Christian Smith, he's a sociologist who did a longitudinal study following people from high school

all the way through their 20s. And in his book Lost in Translation, he explains the difficulty

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