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Old 09-13-2006, 11:54 PM   #5
smoothmoniker
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Originally Posted by Pangloss62
Ethics and values are not contingent on religion. These can be taught as principles, not "beliefs."
Why teach them if you don't believe that they are true? Do you have some empirical set of data that leads you to hold certain values? Or are you simply passing along a set of learned, and believed, ethical values?

This seems like a pretty artificial distinction to me.
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