Natural Law Theorists' attempts to hold the law to a universal and unchanging set of moral standards does indeed imply a fundamentally "religious" attitude. However, this religous attitude does not have to be attributed to any certain religion or any certain diety. The only thing this recognizes is that there are inherently good things in life and inherently bad ones. This idea of good and bad must come from somewhere. The law did not establish the phenomonon of right and wrong. It only seperates and distinguishes what is right and what is wrong. To say that law has no foundation within religion would make no sense at all. In saying this however, it would not be right to make laws and call them just soley based up religiosity. While some things are inherently good and inherently bad law must be the determining factor of this not religion.
An example of my point is the law against murder. While it is a fact that many religions outlaw murder, the law for our society should not be passed against murder becuase of this. It should be passed because murder is wrong. I feel that laws themselves should not come from religious contexts or ideas, religion should only provide the idea of right and wrong to be applied to law.
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