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Essay / Does religion really affect moral values? - 548
In general, many religious people claim that ethics and morality are based on God governing them and fail to see that morality can still be just as important to a person who does not believe in God. Theists, followers of God, assume that religion is a substantial reason for our moral conduct. Non-believers like atheists are still able to understand the difference between right and wrong without religion. John believes that if there were not a higher power to give us set rules and reasons on how to behave, everything we do would be measured the same way. While Andrea, who opposes this theory, points out that God is not the key to having moral values. His argument seems more convincing because an atheist can always do the right thing based on his own self-interest if he has a rational explanation of moral values. The only difference is that non-believers do not have a supreme leader to measure the intensity of their actions. Doing the right or wrong thing must be justified based on whether your actions hurt or harm someone in any way....