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COLUMN: Morality must originate from a higher power

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From: University Wire
Date: 20020211
Author:Neal Foster

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(Oklahoma Daily) (U-WIRE) NORMAN, Okla. -- One of the common beliefs held by people through the ages is that there is a God. Why is this belief so prevalent? Several arguments and lines of reason have been put forward to support this. There have been so many, in fact, that to examine them would be far outside the reach of this simple column. So let's examine one in particular: morality. Fyodor Dostoevsky said, "If God does not exist, everything is permissible." The point he makes here underscores the idea that the only rational basis for morality is the entirely ...

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