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Genuine morality is doing what is right regardless of what we may be told; religious morality is doing what we are told. Religion’s power gives us strong reasons to do what we’re told.
It is quite possible to be nonreligious but highly moral. But if you followed the exact wording of the Bible, you could sell your uppity daughter into slavery (Exodus 21:7).
The evolution of moral behaviors goes hand in hand with the evolution of sociality. Social complexity builds moral complexity. And we are one very social species.
We have an innate need for order in our lives, and religion fills it.
If a person is religious, he is an atheist in relation to others’ gods and the gods of history.
In his groundbreaking research, Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom and his team found that infants as young as three months old have some innate sense of right and wrong, good and bad, even fair and unfair.
Human arrogance leads us to think we alone are moral beings. Other animals demonstrate empathy, compassion, grief, comfort, assistance, forgiveness, trust, reciprocity, and a sense of justice, revenge, spite, and much more. When acknowledged, those traits have been downplayed as “building blocks” of human morality.
This human ability for self-deception is crucial to religious belief. If many believers could see their own minds more clearly, they would see that self-deception plays a role in their acceptance of faith.