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Can ethics survive the death of religion?

Moral Maze

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Is Morality Depends on Religions?

Ryan McKay is a professor of psychology at the Royal Holloway. He has studied the relationship between religion and morality. Would you class the idea that morality depends on religions as a collective delusion? Yes, I would. In surveys, if you ask people whether morality depends on religion, then in my view, alarming proportions of people will agree with that. Dr Carmody Gray says our moral norms stem from deeply ingrained intuitions all humans share.

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