y to function in an orderly, beneficial way.Fundamentalists correctly perceive that universal moral standards are required for the proper functioning of society. But they mistakenly believe that God is the only possible source of such standards. Philosophers as diverse as Plato, Immanuel Kant, and John Rawls have demonstrated that it is possible to have a universal morality without God. Contrary to what the fundamentalists would have us believe, then, what our society really needs is not more religion but a richer notion of the nature of morality. BibliographyLouis P. Pojman, Ethical Theory (Belmont,CA: Wadsworth, 1998), 635-637.Pojman, 646Robin Le Poidevin, “Are God and Ethics Inseparable or Incompatible”, *http://hem.passagen.se/nicb/god_ethics.htm* (10 Oct. 1996).Poidevin, articleMark I. Vuletic, “Against Moral Argument”, * http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mark_vuletic/moral.html* ( 1997).Mark I. Vuletic, “The Night I Saw the Light”, *http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/allen_wayback.html* ( 11/10/2000). ...
