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Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.
Alan Dershowitz
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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
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