There has been a lot of discussion over that past -say- 10 years about how the moral compass of the United States has taken a nose dive into the toilet. These discussion are often times initiated by Evangelical Christians who claim that people are turning their backs on God and, as a result, our sinful ways are destroying traditional family values and United States as a whole. What is a moral compass? Quite simply, it's the ability to know right from wrong. Someone with a strong moral compass always seems to do the right thing; even if doing the right thing is difficult. But 'right' and 'wrong' are not always concise sides of a coin. Our definition of what is right and what is wrong in informed by the society in which we live and by the rules or beliefs followed by that society. Often religion plays into those rules or beliefs. And that takes what is right and what is wrong into a whole other realm; depending on which religion is being followed. Religion itself is a...