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I should add, I have no issue with her actual conversion. To each their own.

Having said that, I feel that my own position on morality would likely have been at least as strong to her as the one provided by catholicism, and does so in such a way as to be consistent with her view on the whole "Forms" thing. A strong morality can be found by logic and basic axioms (such as what I call the axiom of consistency - it's very similar to the golden rule, but applies to the morals themselves, in that anything that I consider moral to do to you, I must also consider moral for you to do to me, and similar in terms of immorality).

Starting with a set of reasonable axioms, one can derive such relatively obvious morals as "don't kill other people unnecessarily", "take proper care of the environment", and "give to those less fortunate than yourself".