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Attack of the Theocrats!
In the same sense astrology is "championed".
We have our own moral compass drilled into us through evolution. We taught it to ourselves and can continue teaching without invoking deities. The mammals cared for each other millions of years before human consciousness and we evolved our own values on the back of this. Now the religious have hijacked this as their own... but it belongs to the natural... not the supernatural.
Irony alert. Syria is torn apart (in part) by the very god-belief she props up, namely sectarian religious division. The Sunni majority vs the Allawite minority... and 10% Christian. It's a melting pot of religious hatred. Just listen to the frenzied Syrian rebels as they shout "Allahuh Akhbar".
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