How Can We Divorce Moral Claims From Religion?

Jordan Ben-Ghiat: We can divorce the good principles that we may have had in some respects from religion from religion ultimately and still leave perfectly happy. He says there's at least two disparate sets of phenomena that might be regarded as religious. The dogmatic element tends to appeal to people who are essentially conservative in their temperamental nature, he adds. But if either of those exceeds its proper boundaries, then there's a degenerative consequence,. writes Ben-ghiat.