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It is not enough to say an act is wrong because God forbids it, unless the wrongness can also be justified on moral grounds.

To people who don't believe in God, quoting the Bible is as useful as talking to a brick wall. Close to a third of Australians don't accept that God exists. If formal religious observance is any guide, it is likely that far more do not believe strongly that God exists.

Most people simply do not live by what the Bible, or the Koran or any other religious text says. (If we did we would all, instead of just an extremist few, be out killing infidels or taking virgins for ourselves.)