Michael Shermer: We don’t need God or religion to know right from wrong

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Do we really need God or religion to tell us what’s right and wrong? Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic Magazine, says that this kind of celestial-spiritual guidance really isn’t necessary. Or particularly effective. He makes a great case for being a moral realist — for example, studying past examples of war or slavery to learn morals from them — is much more effective than going back to mysticism like, say, The Bible, a fantastical book written by committee some 2,000 years ago and hardly updated since.

[Video and text source: Big Think YouTube channel]