Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

Sam Harris
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Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see that there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality. Morality is much too complicated for any one religion to have its own take on it. There are many different ways of looking at morality, and the only real way to do so would be to try to look at all of them.

Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

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