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Paul Chaveriat Without a religious foundation how can we obtain adequate morals? Religion has always presented me with an interesting personal conflict. I have been raised as a Lutheran; I attended Church almost every Sunday until I was a senior in High School. I even attended a Lutheran school from kindergarten until graduation. Now, I am confident that even without all of this ‘training’ I would still uphold the same, strict morals by which I …

…course be impossible. As a society people will only come together on something which affects their emotions, something which touches them deep inside. Religion is able to do this. Without religion people may have just as strong morals as without, but as a society there can be no established morals. Religion provides society with standards connected with emotion, so that an entire community can live knowing that their views are held by those around them.