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Religion =/= morality. What separates us from the animals is the morality that our society supports and how we were raised as children. Eventually our society stopped tolerating religion's view on morality, and as such stopped letting the church kill people. You take any one of us as babies and throw us back 20k years, and we'll be ruthlessly bashing each other in the head with rocks.In animals, it is evolutionary, but in humans, it is both evolutionary and religious in principle. Wolves operate purely on instinct. Humans do not. Human make moral and value judgements, based on beliefs of what is good or bad. We even take those value judgements so far as to be counterproductive to our survival and fitness as a species. As an example, wolves would instinctively kill another wolf who was a danger to their society. Humans don't do that. Humans go counter to what is logical, which is where our religious beliefs come into play, whether we acknowledge it as religious belief or not.
My morality is not grounded in religion. If we got our morality from the bible, we'd be murdering non christians and gays for religious justice. I honestly believe we did really well in spite of religion.