A. Just how efficacious, Dear Gentle Reader(s), are our religious institutions, not to mention the basic family unit, at teaching morality?
In all the brouhaha about, say, abstinence-only-before marriage v sex-education in the educational system, isn't there an underlying rationale that the teaching of morality and responsibility done at home or at religious educational facilities isn't working? If church and home were doing such a good job, why do we need laws restricting behavior?
B. What, really and truly, is the difference between a fundamentalist Christian, an orthodox Jew, and a fundamentalist Moslem? They all, literally, pray to the very same Deity. Yet they gleefully strive to kill off those who do not pray in the same manner as they. Do we really trust the rationale of anyone whose mantra is "God's will?"
Do we want a fundamentalist to be given the power of the button? "It's God's will that I push this button and destroy a middle eastern city so that the End of Days might commence."
Just askin'.
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