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Religious [[belief]] systems usually include the idea of [[divine]] [[will]] and divine judgment and usually correspond to a moral code of conduct, and many religions claim that religion and morality are intimately connected.  For example, the Roman Catholic Church maintains that although morality can be derived from unaided reason as it is simply the "right ordering" of man's actions, ultimately it derives from God because God created man and nature and that the ultimate sanction for immorality is the loss of a relationship with God.

Religious [[belief]] systems usually include the idea of [[divine]] [[will]] and divine judgment and usually correspond to a moral code of conduct, and many religions claim that religion and morality are intimately connected.  For example, the Roman Catholic Church maintains that although morality can be derived from unaided reason as it is simply the "right ordering" of man's actions, ultimately it derives from God because God created man and nature and that the ultimate sanction for immorality is the loss of a relationship with God.

==Quotes==

==Quotes==

*[[Society]] can never hope to settle down as in past ages. The social ship has steamed out of the sheltered bays of established [[tradition]] and has begun its cruise upon the high seas of evolutionary [[destiny]]; and the [[soul]] of man, as never before in the world's [[history]], needs carefully to scrutinize its charts of morality and painstakingly to observe the compass of religious guidance. The paramount mission of [[religion]] as a social influence is to stabilize the [[ideal]]s of mankind during these dangerous times of transition from one [[phase]] of [[civilization]] to another, from one level of [[culture]] to another.[http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper99.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper99.html&line=35#mfs]

*The extent of civil government and statutory regulation, in an intermediate state of advancing civilization, is in inverse proportion to the '''morality''' and spirituality of the citizenship. [http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper55.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper55.html&line=166#mfs]

*The extent of civil government and statutory regulation, in an intermediate state of advancing civilization, is in inverse proportion to the morality and spirituality of the citizenship. [http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper55.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper55.html&line=166#mfs]

*The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of [[morality]] will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love. [http://mercy.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper2.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper2.html&line=150#mfs]

==See Also==

==See Also==

* [[Ethics]]

* [[Ethics]]