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Moral Duties in a Muddied World

Spikeygrrl Wrote: May 05, 2012 11:56 PM
I can't speak for Aura, but I totally approve of, and try to live by, the Commandments which regulate non-religion-specific behavior (5-10), and consider the ones which regulate "worship" (1-4) irrelevant...EXCEPT to religionists of specifically Judeo-Christian "brands." Spike <= principled atheist

Vatican City -- In an election season in which the White House has instituted a policy that puts unprecedented limits on the constitutional right to freedom of religion, questions of conscience, duty and spiritual and moral obligation are of critical importance.

A conference at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences had some related thoughts and warnings. The Vatican think tank was founded in 1994 and is meant to facilitate a continuing dialogue between faith and reason, between the social sciences and the social thought of the Church.

To an American sitting in on the conference, some of its sessions amounted to...

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