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Originally Posted by AlternateGray
No, I wouldn't go that far. Religion will always be the linchpin of the majority's moral system.
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And where does that morality belong? Long after one has logically evaluated the situation, then one stands back, compares that conclusion to morality biases, and ask, "Does it make sense?"
If not, one puts morality back in a drawer and restarts the logical analysis to find the error. When done, morality is again brought out to be compared to that logical solution. Morality never belongs in a decision making process – in part because it is an emotional concept. Morality is simply a 'check function' so that you don't make wild and unacceptable mistakes.
If, as Bible thumpers do, one uses morality as logic, then such people are easily converted to the dark side - as Hitler did to make it obvious that Jews were so immoral. Scopes trial did same when evolution was declared as evil. They were only using emotional morality rather than logic to condemn the science. If we blindly followed morality in the bible, then charismatic podium thumpers rather than fundamental science would be the source of man's advancement. Such moral people even created the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades.
The ten commandments were man's first attempts at forming civilization. We also no longer blindly follow old English law even though such laws are a fundamental basis of our own laws. As we advance mankind, we learn more of god laws from god's prophets that have existed in every decade. We then discard those guidelines that were wrong. But those who refuse to learn, instead, insist that an early science book, the Bible, is all that one must know. They would use morality rather than logic as a basis for all decisions. IOW they would impose their religious beliefs on all others.
Your morality is your circuit breaker. It is protection so that you don't make bad mistakes. It is not a tool for making decisions; only a tool to check yourself.