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Q&A on God and Religion with Aaron Smith and Mike Mazza

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

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Can There Be Good Without God?

Rick asks, could you address the common claim that without a God, you cannot have morality? Well, there's a longer presentation of this that on card, I did. But to give you something here, just in the live broadcast, this is really, I think, an epistemological question. How would we know what's good and evil if it weren't for a mystical being giving us the answers? And I think the short answer is, well, you'd reach that knowledge by the same methods you reach to reach any knowledge. That's reason.

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