Outline-Completed 3/8/2013 at 9:12PM 1st paragraph- As in every society, there will usually be large groups of people with the

same morals. Most typically, in these societies morals sort of a deep cultural, religious, or spiritual meaning. This means that of course under the first amendment, there will be people who have a lack of belief and still have morality. Thesis- While it is deeply spiritual and religious to have morals it does not mean that only religious people haves these morals even nonreligious people can believe in the same set of morality or even greater of compared to religious peoples. [2] 2nd paragraph- By definition morals is a knowing of right from wrong, or much better yet having ethics Morals is something hardwired in our brains to figure out whether or not someone is doing something wrong, so naturally you react, you can only react because something went against what you believed as morally correct. A study was conducted to monitor the brains of people who where asked to think about doing something good. It had seem that everything you thought of something generous, a part of your brain that would light up when eating food, or sex [3] 3rd paragraph- There seems to be a misunderstanding in a concept that states that while religious people tend to seem to do more charity work than their non religious counterparts, it automatically mean they have more morals, while yes more religious people do, do more charity work it doesnt automatically mean atheists are not moral. A study was conducted that stated that atheists just like regular people where susceptible to the unconscious God Effect In a another Test it revealed a comparable legal institutions effect, in which participants in a third group proved to be as generous as the religious group. Some other studies have suggested that under any types of conditions that would remove anonymity, it would actually improve the persons generosity. [4] 4th paragraph- Religous morality has caused a more gap between non religous people and religous people, because of the simple distrust in each other. This unfortunate distrust in atheists has caused many issues in the law and government for example, in some states nonreligous people are unable to hold office only becuase of their disbelief in any religion Another example is cited from John Locke who did not even believe that atheists should not be trusted in office.

5th paragraph/ conclusion- Every society, whether you are in the most religious zone of Saudi Arabia, there will still be atheists or nonreligous people who hid from being prosecuted, but theyre still their. Ending sentence- While Atheism and almost every religion may disagree in many of areas, there is one area that is a grey spot and that is morality, and whether or not you believe in a god or not you can still have morality.

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052701056.html [3] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/why-religion-is-natural-and-science-is-not/201203/arereligious-people-more-moral-atheists [4] http://www.yale.edu/minddevlab/papers/religion-morality-evolution.pdf