Morality and Religion Among Adolescents

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The purpose of this website is only to state facts from research.  This website is not intended to promote or challenge any religious beliefs.

What is morality?

1. a sustained commitment to moral ideals or principles that include a generalized respect for humanity; or a sustained evidence of moral virtue;

2. a disposition to act in accord with one’s moral ideals or principles …;

3. a willingness to risk one’s self-interest for the sake of one’s moral values;

4. a tendency to be inspiring to others and thereby to move them to moral action; and

5. a sense of realistic humility about one’s own importance (Walker 375).

Can morality be taught to adolescents without religion?

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