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On CNN.com<\/a> Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate suggest, \u201cOur moral code is out of date.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAsk someone on the street to name a moral hero; if he isn\u2019t at a loss, he\u2019ll likely name someone like Jesus Christ or Mother Teresa. Why? Because they\u2019re regarded as people of faith who shunned personal profit for the collective good. No one would dream of naming Galileo, Darwin, Thomas Edison or John D. Rockefeller. Yet we should. It is they, not the Mother Teresas of the world, that we should strive to be like and teach our kids the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atheist thinkers have long argued that we can be good without God meaning that morality does not rely on belief in God. Christians have responded that this is illogical, that principles of right and wrong point to our transcendent nature. Brook and Ghate are devising a rare moralty, that rare system that identifies Mother Theresa as immoral.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"