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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if this is a serious inquiry, I think I can answer:

It is not that humans cannot know right from wrong without "religion," however you define that.  Rather, humans know right from wrong, i.e., understand the concept of morality, because they have a soul and a conscience.  This is how we are made in God's image:  we don't physically look like Him, we ARE like Him, in that we have free will and can choose right OR wrong.

So a native in the recesses of a rain forest, a monk in a monastery, and a proud atheist on DCUM all have a moral sense.  That moral sense comes from their Creator, from God, whether they know or acknowledge Him or not.

It is not possible to explain this sense of OBLIGATION to do good and avoid evil without an OBLIGATOR.  There is some AUTHORITY we all listen to through our conscience, an entity to whom we have a duty.  His name is God.

So sure, you can know right from wrong without religion or faith.  It's what makes you human, and not animal.  But there would be no right or wrong at all without an absolute standard that transcends any one human, or society.

This distinction might take some reflection, some pondering, but it's worth your while.  It's why that atheist blogger came to believe in God.  Google "atheist blogger converts to Catholicism" and follow her thoughts.  This was the very issue that led her to acknowledge that morality is impossible without God as the author.[/quote]

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