The laws of nature were equated with the laws of God in Enlightenment thinking. ... It is not a matter of law or ritual, and Judaism usually allows some freedom on metaphysical matters. ... Another group held to the orthodox position that only observant Jews who upheld the law would be so rewarded. ... Also, there was the common view that belief in an immortal soul that would be punished for sin and rewarded for virtue was a vital support for morality. If the Jews were soft on the immortality of the soul, then they may be considered to be soft on morality. ...

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The view holds that one can determine the future through the past given the laws of nature and the way of the world. ... The laws of nature that operate on our brains determine our sense that we can decide what to do is an illusion since what we will to do. The claim of inevitability insists that it is inevitable to follow the laws of nature given a particular past, while the laws of nature and the original starting point justify a strong claim. The final theory that sets out comprehensive laws will explain how the universe began fit in the current and predicts all the future observations. ......

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Because of this, the nation subconsciously tries to find common ground between them where raw religion turns into morality and sharing similar ideas of right and wrong. Any argument on ethics or morality always seemed to come back to its religious foundation; for example, the cases of Charles Finney social reforms or Abraham Lincoln's personal conflict during the Civil War. ... After multiple law suits against the school board, the case finally reached the U.S. ...

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The proposals of Plato selected to be discussed will adhere to a general definition that religion is "a strong belief in a supernatural power that control human destiny".1 This will enable an appropriate scope into the discussion, and allow us to explore ideas beyond defining religion as simply codified practises of prayer, ritual and religious law, as these were not substantial within Plato's work. ... "Outlining his initial version of the cosmological argument, Plato points out in Laws that things in the universe move or change.... The Euthyphro dialogue fundamentally que...

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