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Is Goodness Without God Good Enough? A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Morality and religion: intimately wed, violently opposed, or something else? Discussion of this issue appears in pop culture, the academy, and the media—often generating radically opposed views. At one end of the spectrum are those who think that unless God exists, ethics is unfounded and the moral life is unmotivated. At the other end are those who think that religious belief is unnecessary...

in his creation. But is this so? How do you explain the dying of 3,000 innocent people at the World Trade towers? How and why did a loving God permit that to happen? For the humanist, the universe is as we find it; we try to live the best life we can, and we try to use our intelligence and good will to resolve our problems in order to live together in peace and harmony. But to postulate an all-loving, omniscient, and just God who nonetheless allows evil to exist, is the Achilles heel of the classical
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