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I am reminded of two cautioning quotes on this topic:
From Historians Wil and Ariel Durant, “There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.”
From US Founding Father John Adams, ““Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Would mama bears or mother geese be protective and caring for their young without impressions transmitted by God? Where do these impressions come from? Random electric pulses?
A world without God sooner or later becomes like it was in the days before the Flood: “The earth was filled with violence.”