Morality does not come purley from religion

Sorry, I spelled purely wrong in the title. I would like to thank my opponent for taking this debate; it's a little different than some others on here. Note that I will be using culture interchangeably with forms or areas of cultural production. First: religion is a part of culture and its texts are forms of culture; however, morality is not based upon those texts, even in extreme, fundamentalist, and dogmatic cases. Although religious texts can help shape morality,it is the everyday interactions with areas of culture that create and maintain our morality. We are always affected by the culture that surround us (media, literature, art, etc.). For instance, I view the world in a certain way with certain assumptions, values, and judgments that are founded in the culture that I consume (science books, art, media, etc.). During the the Middle ages, there's no doubt that the church had influence on every bit of culture. The church, however, is an institution that exerts power. It was that control over all aspects of culture that formed people's morality, not the religious texts alone. The same could be said of any dictatorship based on any religion. Second: Atheists and many unaffiliated people have morality which has very little foundation in religion, and religious texts would certainly not maintain their morality. The morality of unaffiliated people and many Westerners, does not have much foundation in Christianity. While the founders of America were Christian (some where deists), their believes about the right conduct of government, society, and economics came from Rome (much of the non-Christian part) and Greece; the code of Hammurabi; Magna Carta; the scientific findings during the scientific revolution (the Enlightenment). The aspect that should be noted is the Enlightenment. It revolutionized how people viewed the entire universe, especially the human condition within the universe. Much of our morality in the US, is based on the scientific books we read and the technology we use everyday. For instance, animal rights could be seen has having its foundation in science because we learn through science that humans are animals and that all animals can suffer and feel pain much like humans (just an example, not another issue for debate). Third: It is easy to point at a couple of commandments that say "Don't kill, don't steal," then say, "See morality comes from that." There are, however, hundreds of other commandments in the Old Testament along with teachings in the New that we ignore or that have been found independently in other cultures who came before or had no contact with Christianity. People do not do things necessarily because an authority says so. They do what they do because it has been formed in them from everyday interactions with culture. For instance, we use money (just paper that looks a certain way) to buy things. Any other paper is not considered money. We believe money has value not because someone says it does but because we use it everyday; it is that everyday interaction that forms the money's value to society. As a side note, the quote you use, one, has very little significance to the debate and secondly, is taken out of context when one reads the link (click it and read it your self, reader). It also says that "society has have just as much of an influence on people's thinking as religion." That's almost my argument. There's much more behind morality than just religion.