God Is Irrelevant to Morality
If a thousand Gods existed, or if nature existed independent of any, the moralrelation between man and man would remain exactly the same in eithercase. Moral principle is the result of this relation, it is foundedin the properties of our nature, and it is as indestructible as thebasis on which it rests.
--Elihu Palmer (1764-1806), Principles of Nature; or, A Development of the Moral Causes of Happiness and Misery Among the Human Species
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