Mothers of ISIS

[Johnny Cupcakes]

(08-17-2015, 09:39 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The basis of morality lies in society, not religion. You can find evidence of morality, or at least the roots of it, within chimpanzee socieites. Religion has served many roles in our cultures around the world, and one of those has been to codify morality. But morality existed before religion.

Religion undoubtedly has had an effect on human morality, but to say that it's the only factor in it is just wrong.  If you read religious texts though, they're filled with just as many negative things as positive things regarding morality.

If it were the only factor in morality, you would expect for more religious people to be more moral as a whole (which isn't the case), and for a far smaller amount of horrible things attributed to religion.