Author: Theodore Schick Jr.
Theodore Schick is professor of philosophy at Muhlenberg College and the co-author of How to Think About Weird Things
Morality Requires God…or Does It?
Although Plato demonstrated the logical independence of God and morality over 2,000 years ago in the Authyphro, the belief that morality requires God remains a widely held moral maxim. In particular, it serves as the basic assumption of the Christian fundamentalist’s social theory. Fundamentalists claim that all of society’s ills—everything from AIDS to out-of-wedlock pregnan-cies—are …
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