"For these human problems there are also rules, but we often do not enjoy obeying them. Ultimately, no amount of logic, no discussion of ethical values in an agnostic public school, and no vague secular idealism is going to be much good if we have the easy opportunity to reach over the fence into our neighbor's garden, or if we dislike his spouse too much, or if we can misrepresent what we have done to him by not telling the truth.
"It requires not merely laws, but a lawgiver, one who cannot be evaded or deceived, to direct us into the straight course. For basic laws that can be counted on our fingers, the ones Moses gave us still seem to get to the heart of the matter, and they point to that Lawgiver, whom Moses himself obeyed."
-H. Boone Porter, excerpted from his essay Law and Life in A Song of Creation
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