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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
• Religion associated with morals while atheism is not
– Bertrand Russell

4.2 The Divine Command Theory
• Implies that morality is arbitrary
• Act is obligatory if and only if, and because, it is commanded by God
• Honesty and humility is right
• Child abuse and murder is wrong
• Recognizing it and making it
• Does God make the moral truths true or does he merely recognize them

4.3 The Theory of Natural Law
• Everything in nature has a purpose
– Aristotle originated this theory
– Revised by Christian philosophers (Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas)
• How things are and how they ought to be
– When something is serving it's purpose it is right, when it is defecting from that purpose it is wrong......

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