Opinion

Submitted by Tyler Alleman (United States), Oct 2, 2006 at 11:32

I believe that whoever wrote this article is wrong in the sense that a person's view of law and belief is a matter of opinion. And a government job is not to establish in your sense "good and evil" but more to keep order among society and establish justice. Also why does morality depend upon religious belief. Can a non-religious person not have morals. If there was no religion would you not have morals and beliefs, if there was not a god for you would you act like a hoolagin. Why does it take a god for man to act justly amongst one another. So basically i am saying is strongly disagree that a government really needs religion to justify it.

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