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Did a culture of insatiable greed turn an entire generation into crooks?

Ilias Sourdis asks whether or not a lack of values, family love and a taught respect has created a generation of liars and cheats… (Source: Neos Kosmos – 16 Aug 2012) Many of my generation were born long before electricity had reached our rural areas and started our lives with many beautiful human values such as respect for self and …

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The Limits of Secularism and the Search for Meaning

Author: Jonathan Sacks – ABC Religion and Ethics  – 17 May 2012 (Source: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/05/17/3505407.htm) Religion survives because it answers three questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How shall I live? We will always ask these questions, and religion has always been our greatest heritage of meaning. In 2000, the Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam published a book called Bowling …

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