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How To Have A Moral Code Without Religion

I'm mainly thinking of the tweet I've seen forwarded around everywhere - something along the lines of "The Pope says atheists can just pick and choose which morals to have, so today I will choose to frown on the rape of children and think homosexuality is fine."

I seem to have a pretty strict moral code, one way or another. I don't live up to it, of course. I think that if I did it would be a sign to me that it wasn't strict enough.
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