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American Values | Religion Is Essential to a Moral Society

Philip Yancey explains in the subsequent viewpoint why a moral society is necessarily a religious society. He claims that contemporary America’s secularism has reduced the concept of morality to a question of personal choice. According to Yancey, the ability to make authentic judgments about right and wrong requires the guidance of religion; any moral system set down by secularists is completely arbitrary, since it has no higher authority as its foundation. Yancey is the author of many books, including the recent What’s So Amazing About Grace??

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