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How can we hope to grapple with complex moral issues that have emerged only in recent years?

How can we hope to grapple with complex moral issues that have emerged only in recent years? How can we hope to grapple with complex moral issues that have emerged only in recent years? Can religion alone handle the job? Consider the follow- ing case: According to a report by CNN, Jack and Lisa Nash

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So what is the relationship between religion and morality?

So what is the relationship between religion and morality? For our purposes, we should break this question into two parts: (1) what is the rela- tionship between religion and ethics (the philo- sophical study of morality), and (2) what is the relationship between religion and morality (beliefs about right and wrong)? The first question asks

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If our terminally ill neighbor asks us in the name of love to help him kill himself, what should we do?

If our terminally ill neighbor asks us in the name of love to help him kill himself, what should we do? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may

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How does love require us to behave toward the drug dealers, the gay couple, or the person who denounces our religion?

How does love require us to behave toward the drug dealers, the gay couple, or the person who denounces our religion? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may

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we may be commanded to love our neighbor, but what neighbors are included people of a different religion?

we may be commanded to love our neighbor, but what neighbors are included people of a different religion? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may be commanded to

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