Article: COLUMN: Got morality?

Jeremy Patrick
University Wire
04-16-2001
(Daily Nebraskan) (U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -- "All great truths begin as blasphemies." -- George Bernard Shaw

When certain people become distraught -- such as by another school shooting, rising HIV rates or an increase in teen pregnancy -- they often proclaim that the problem is that we have drifted away from God.

The idea, in its most basic form, is that a belief in God is essential to "morality." With a little work, one can find that both theologians and statesmen historically favored this view.

Even many of the so-called founding fathers, largely deists, took this position. For example, in his farewell address as president, George Washington ...

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