Quote Originally Posted by mrdevious
I can't say I agree. Ton's of people like myself who live without god, without his 10 commandments, lead productive and peacefull lives. When tens of thousands of people go out shopping for the boxing day sales, they're not all refraining from punching each other in the face and stealing their Wii's because the 10 commandments are in their heads. The most powerfull force of morality and restraint is found in the conditioning that we're all indoctrinated with, to conform to our culture's social standards and codes for accetpable behavior. It's genetically incoded in us to have a psychological drive to be accepted into ones society, and after a while it goes further than that as we develop a sense of empathy and understanding that people's perceptions exist outside our own. Even the 10 commandments are still handed down by our culture's elders, and those people are the real driving force.
ditto

and Pass TS. We agree!!!

There have actually been studies done comparing the altruistic behaviour between religious people and non religious people and no difference was found.

But i dont think the original post was disagreeing