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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people don’t know how to teach morality without religion. [/quote]

That's because there is no morality without religion.[/quote]

Then how can my 1st grader have such a strong sense of morality even though she has not been taught any religious dogma? Her morals also do not align with any certain religious sect.[/quote]

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Actually her morals align with most religious traditions.
1)Play fair 
2) Don’t hit people 
3) Say sorry when you hurt someone.
4) Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
5) Sharing is loving.

She learned all this and more from her teachers in kindergarten.[/quote]

Do the morals align with most religious traditions, or the other way around?

Because there are PLENTY of immoral rules in most holy books, and PLENTY of immoral things done in the name of religion which non-religious people would never do.  This has all been covered 1,000 times here, but I'll be happy to report if asked.[/quote]

What is the other way around?[/quote]

Do most religious traditions align with morals.[/quote]

Well, this might be the chicken or the egg kind that question.
I believe some moral principles are innate like don’t murder.
Some moral principles could be to create a peaceful community like don’t steal or commit adultery.
But, only  religion teaches moral principles systematically to most people .[/quote]

Riiiiggght.

[i]Dear Editor: If 'The Bible is the inspired, inerrant word of Almighty God,' we need a new god. Here is a small sampling of the immoral, unethical and violent acts condoned and sometimes promoted by God and His Bible.

Adultery: Biblical hero Abraham impregnates his wife's servant.

Animal cruelty: Jesus sends 2,000 pigs plunging into the sea where they choke to death.

Anti-family values: Jesus proclaims, 'For I am come to set man against his father, and daughter against her mother ... '

Bigamy: Biblical hero Solomon possessed 700 wives.

Bigotry: God gives Moses the commandment to put all homosexuals to death.

Cannibalism: 'This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him.'

Child abuse: 'Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against stones.'

Deceit: Biblical hero King David befriends Uriah and then has him killed so he can have Uriah's wife.

Incest: Lot's daughters get their father drunk and both get pregnant by him.

Intolerance, egomania and cruel mindedness: 'He that believeth not shall be damned.'

Slavery: Bible gives rules concerning a slave's obedience to his owner.

Violence: 'And we took all his cities and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones.'

Woman abuse: Biblical hero Moses dictates. 'But all the woman children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.'
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https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/opinion/letters/2007/11/11/bible-full-of-immoral-acts/27732069007/

I can keep going for days on this.  Pages on slavery in exodus alone.
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