> I really dislike religion claiming monopoly on morals. Where's the monopoly? A discussion on the moral values of religious rituals doesn't preclude anything.

> I really dislike religion claiming monopoly on morals. Where's the monopoly? A discussion on the moral values of religious rituals doesn't preclude anything. I don't even belong to a church. It seems you think (perhaps subconsciously) that religion has a monopoly on morals. Why else are you bringing that into the discussion and arguing against it? > Even animals care for each-other and protect each-other, can't claim culture or religion there - its a basic feature of evolution. Religious morals are an instance of mutual care emerging through social evolution in an animal - the human, specifically. And humans call it "culture", because humans like to invent words to describe specific instances of phenomena.