>>Religion is not the only value system......I don't derive these morals from a faith in god but from an application of reason.<<
Religion is not the only value system, but it is the MAIN value system for most people in America and the world.
Most people are not educated enough to be able to engage in the abstract high level reasoning, needed to formulate a set of secular moral values which to live under.
Simple religious teachings work for most people.
Religion is not the only value system, but it is the MAIN value system for most people in America and the world.
Most people are not educated enough to be able to engage in the abstract high level reasoning, needed to formulate a set of secular moral values which to live under.
Hmmmm.. I'd say that most everyone learns at their mothers breast the worlds main value system, the golden rule. -- 'Don't bite the teat that feeds you'..
Simple religious teachings work for most people.
Can't get much simpler than "Do onto others" ...