To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
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