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The question is vague and mixes up too many undefined things. What is religiosity versus non-religiosity? Are you equating “being religious” to holding to specific religious doctrines, as preached by the churches and sects? Do you suppose that everybody defines morality in the same way? But I guess what you are trying to get at is, how will one behave if one’s religious beliefs do not include an all-powerful spiritual overseer that threatens to harshly punish all of our evil acts, thoughts, words, deeds.
The question is vague and mixes up too many undefined things. What is religiosity versus non-religiosity? Are you equating “being religious” to holding to specific religious doctrines, as preached by the churches and sects? Do you suppose that everybody defines morality in the same way?
But I guess what you are trying to get at is, how will one behave if one’s religious beliefs do not include an all-powerful spiritual overseer that threatens to harshly punish all of our evil acts, thoughts, words, deeds. And that has nothing to do with morality, only with a fear of punishment. If your feelings and inclinations are to do evil, then not doing so because of fear is not morality but hypocrisy. How many of the church-going “religious” people are only hypocrites? Millions. How many of the “non-religious” have a solid and true morality? That is more difficult to ascertain.
