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The basis for religion is a deeply held conviction about life's origin, meaning, and purpose. Some religions are morally good, and some are not.
Dr. Michael Ruse, a leading authority on the philosophy for the soft sciences, wrote: "Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is an ideology, a secular religion-a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. . . . Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning and is true of evolution today" (National Post, May 13, 2000).
Religions, then, must be identified as such and then classified in reference to their morality. "The interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts . . . on which all [moral] religions agree, for all forbid us to murder, steal, plunder, or bear false witness and that we [government] should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which [doctrines] are totally unconnected with morality" (Jefferson's letter to James Fishback, September 27, 1809).
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