Morality is a product of religion

Your argument that morality is manmade is wrong. The morality of cooperation has been one of the key elements to survival. It might seem like we"re the only society on our planet, but we certainly aren"t. Actually, there are far more efficient societies than ours. For example: Ants and bees have a far more efficient society than ours. Their societies are more harmonious and directed towards the greater good, whether it"d be monarchy or communism. Every single bee or ant is part of a colony as a finger is part of a body. They both work for the greater good. Ant colonies basically function like one body. They"re born, they grow, the reproduce and they die. In the harvester ant of Arizona, the queen lives for almost 20 years. Between the 3rd and the 5th year the colony grows and attacks other colonies, just like adolescent apes. They grow and want to show their dominance. After the 5th year the colony stops growing, and just like a mature ape, it starts to reproduce. Beehives can be seen as one tentacle-creature. This creature can reach flowers as far as 1 mile away. Some ants and termites build deep underground nests in which they grow agricultural crops and fungus on carefully prepared compost of chopped leaves. Let"s go back in time. About 5 billion years back in time. Small bacteria are living here, less than five millionth of a meter long and run by thousands of genes and chromosomes. Even these bacteria were team workers. Today bacteria swarm together to disperse their spores. Some algae form very large colonies and divide all the work over singe cells. 1.6 billion years ago the first complex cells arrived. They had over 10.000 genes. By 500 million years ago small animals began to live, the biggest was the trilobite with a little over 1 billion cells. Animals kept growing and kept evolving until today. We now know creatures like the blue whale with over 100.000 trillion cells (that is 100.000.000.000.000.000 cells). Compare your body to the ant colony. You are not one single body. You are a colony of cells cooperating to stay alive. The very moral of cooperation was not created by consciousness, it"s in our genes. But it doesn"t stop there. All your cells are in fact coalitions themselves. Every single cell in your body is home to what we call mitochondria. Mitochondria are specialized bacteria working as batteries. They were living individually until about 800 million years ago. At that time they surrendered their independence in exchange for a life inside cells. The cells of your ancestors and even your cells. Is it over? Nope, we can go even deeper. Inside the mitochondria are chromosomes working together and inside the nuclei of your cells are chromosomes too. In these nuclei are 46 large chromosomes, they cooperate. Inside these chromosomes are genes, about 75.000 of them. Genes work together in small teams of 50. Researching the history of collaboration and morality in living organisms has taken us into the very depths of biology. Morality is certainly not manmade. Animals live by moral standards as well. Morality was essential to our survival and is an evolutionary product. --Sources-- The selfish gene - Richard Dawkins The moral landscape - Sam Harris The origins of Virtue - Matt Ridley