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where did we get our morals from?

I've had this long debate with my aunt (really religious). She say (in which I agree with her) the fundamentals of government go based off religion or the bible. for example. in religion you have a place where you go if you're good (heaven), and you have a place where you go if you're bad (hell). same thing happens in today's society if you're good you get to be free if your breaking the law you go to jail. I feel like we got the "morals" from religion defining what's good and what's bad. so whether your atheist or dont belive in a god... its religion that gave us morals to decide what's good from bad. I dont believe in the bible cause it contradicts itself. but i do belive that there is a God. and I go pretty much go based off good.

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wildbill83 · 41-45, M

"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God." - John Adams

"In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity." - John Quincy Adams

"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and His religion as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see." - Benjamin Franklin

"The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses." - Thomas Jefferson