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Lurkette,
First of all, Happy Birthday!
Sorry for the leap there - let me try to fill in the gap a little better.
The sense of good and bad actions must be defined somewhere. If a social agreement or religious texts or common sense/decency, something has instilled within us a sense of good and bad, right and wrong. You feel it when you help an old lady carry her groceries and you feel it when you lie to your boss. I will grant that people define a lot of the good and bad things (our laws for instance), but where then does this ability to define good and bad come from? Wouldn't you agree that it's just not a great coincidence that we all share a lot of the same views as to what is good and bad? We all feel something compelling us to do the things we OUGHT to do, and not do the things we OUGHT NOT to do. Even cultures completely foreign to us have the same feeling without the same American laws or customs. So then, if we all feel that, we didn't make it up and we didn't all get it from the same social agreement, where did it come from? It must come from a higher source than people. The higher source is God.
Now that may seem like a big leap there at the end, but since this thread is about morality without religion, I'm stating that you cannot have morality without religion. It must come with religion, and God is the basis of that religion that I espouse.
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