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Morality Without Religion

Can we dispatch with religion altogether?
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In his new book, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates, Frans de Waal argues that religion built onto a pre-existing moral system that governed how our species behaved. 

So can we dispatch with religion altogether?

The video below is part of our series of the most popular videos of Summer 2013.

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