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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.