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Kate Cohen: Asks if You Need God to be Good

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Interpreting Religious Texts and Individual Morality

This chapter explores how religious texts are interpreted and how individuals bring their own morality to these texts. It discusses the challenges of reading certain parts of the texts and how believers may ignore, consider them outdated, or reinterpret them metaphorically. The chapter concludes that morality comes from individuals who bring their own moral values to their interpretations.

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