Everyday Ethics

     In an era when the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to a settlement of $660 million dollars with the numerous victims of sexual abuse at the hands of their clergy members, it only seems fitting to discuss the relationship between religion, ethics, and behavior.  There is a simple yet significant point to be [...]

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We have already discussed the fact that striving to be ethical people is a process of training ourselves to make certain types of decisions.  It would be nice if being a more ethical and upstanding person was simply a matter of making the decision to do so.  But most of our ethical failures are rooted [...]

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I am disturbed by the fact that, upon discovering my disbelief in things like sin and hell, people are compelled to ask what motivates me to do the right thing and strive to be moral.  Contemporary American culture assumes a strict connection between religion and ethical conduct, but this connection is not always a healthy [...]

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The graduate students at Colorado State University polled themselves during the 2008 Spring semester to determine how many of us qualify as atheists, theists, or agnostics. The numbers came back with an even split between atheists and theists, five each, and three agnostics. Most of the theists had some agreement on what the [...]

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