I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
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Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.
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.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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