The problemis not secularity, but secularity without ethics.

Making ity an issue of religion is an exercise in futility--consider the ethical history of authoritarian religious groups over the years--Catholic priest scandals, devout preacher scandals, self-styled Christian poltiican scandals without number.

The optimum source of ethical thinking is the native intelligence and ability of the individual spirit, without authoritarian interference or arbitrary moralisms, to view consequences and balance the merits of courses of action across the many spheres of activity they impact. In other words, individual emnlightened thinking will go a whole lot further than any encysted moralistic code ruled by authoritarian interpreters. While this may ultimately be a "spiritual ability" it has nothing to do with non-secular versus secular concerns in the usual sense of the words.





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