It is an obvious answer. You get your morals from being a basic human being. Thousands of years of working together in communities has hardwired human beings to live and work together, and thousands of years of laws and history has taught us that we are all the same and we should be kind to each other for the benefit of everyone. As a human being you have emotions and a brain, and pretty much everyone knows what is right and wrong. Most of us has a thing called empathy, where we can feel for each other. This is due to having a working brain, in which we see someone suffering we can imagine it happening to our self and we feel bad. We can related to one another.
Only a person with deep physiological issues would torture and kill people for money. Even the sick people in government who torture people don't do it for money. They get put in high pressure situation, where they think they need to resort to torture to save lives, and the pressure causes real damage to them, which is why they end up making such poor choices like torture, but even though they have serious issues, even they are not doing it to make a quick buck. And most of them are probably Christians, just because there is a high statistical chance of it.
Even Christians have a strong sense of morals, which is why they ignore everything in the bible. Seriously, most Christians read the bible and say, "Oh this is evil, it must not be literal" and then they ignore it. I think the fact that most Christians do not get their morals from the bible, and actively ignore the bible where it says something stupid, proves that no one is getting their morals from a book.
In the case of the very few people who actually get their morels from a book, they are insane and think we should be stoning and murdering each other for barbaric customs from thousands of years ago. Honestly, I don't think you get your morals from the bible. I think you just said that for the sake of argument. We can prove this by just looking at some things the bible tells you to do.
Would you murder someone who works on Sunday? No, then you have common sense. You didn't get your morals from the bible, you got them from whoever told you that you shouldn't kill people just because they worked on a day that is supposed to be holy.
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