The answer to your question is none whatsoever if the religion is Christ's religion, Christianity.

The Christian religion and its precepts is as necessary to good morals as the right course is necessary to good navigation. The first half of your article describes when people depart from its precepts.

In his "Farewell Address", Washington said some remarkable things....that "Religion and morality are the two "great pillars of human happiness"....are "indispensable supports" of our political prosperity and therefore our national security, "....."religion and morality are the guarantees of security, of property, of reputation, of life itself..."let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintianed without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of pecular structure reason and experience both forbid us to expect that  national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

Religion is the basis of individual and social morality, therefore these evils you describe above in the domestic home, workplace, and society in general, economic injustice, dishonesty, crime of all types, increase to the degree that man departs from religion.

Evil begins with thinking of other people as things. All crimes stem from that first step.

ha!  I was just thinking my subtitle certainly didn't mean George Washington.  You knew that right? 

Well that certainly is part of the problem but I'm afraid it starts even before that. 

Right thinking precedes right living all right.  But right thinking isn't right until we realize why we're here in the first place. 

So no one is capable of making a right action? It is impossible to know exactly why we're here, even for Christians with access to a bible.

All you need to do is remind yourself that other people aren't things, and most evil acts will be extremely difficult if not impossible to commit. I say most because I can't think of any that are made easy by humanising your target, but as a keen moralist your mileage may vary.

It's a little less complicated than your theory, and requires no belief in an almighty, but I reckon it works.

well not for a Christian with (or without for that matter) a bible.  The bible gives us the answers to why we're here.  To me that's a lot less complicated than what the world has to say, because in all reality, they have no idea.  Why do you think you have been placed here? 

I'm not sure what you mean that a belief in an almighty is complicated.  In fact, I'd say just the opposite.  It's quite simple.  There's something bigger than us who created all that we see and hear.  When we turn from Him (the almighty) we open ourselves up to evil because we have shunned his protection believing erronously that we have it all under control. 

Sometimes it seems  there is none left in our world, no one who cares anymore, with all the horrors that are happening out ther.  But ever so often there are those that are out there doing good, and who do have that morality within, God's world is not lost, His people are still here.

I personally believe that people get their morality from whatever it is that they serve.  Everyone, even atheists, serve something - maybe not a supernatural God, but a god nonetheless.

For example, in my experience most people who are atheists say that their morality comes from society.  What is right and wrong to them is relative based on what everyone else thinks about it.  In their case, society is god.

I imagine this could easily give rise to an interesting philisophical debate.

Yes, and for that we must be thankful.  When all seems grim we do get some story or happening that shows that all is not completely lost.  God still has a remnant that are listening to his moral code built inside each one of us. 

yes, it could.  I could play either side quite well actually. 

For instance, in this case, I could say that it was a 50% chance that someone stopped to help this young girl.  In the story of the Good Samaritan it was only 33% as two out of three walked by the man dying in the road. 

*Yep gonna be a thorn.*

No, Christ's religion was Judaism. 

*K done being a nudnick*

KFC, I would argue that one who is wicked under/with religion is FAR worse than one without.  A wicked person with religion often uses deception and few pieces of truth to advance an agenda. Hint: the Anti-Christ is supposed to use religion to deceive a large portion of the world with peace.

Agree.....we have good reason to believe that Jesus practiced Hebraic Judaism.....that is, until the Sanhedrin and heads of the Jewish nation and official guardians and exponents of the Jewish religion publiclly proclaimed to Pilate, "We have no king but Ceasar!" At that moment the Jewish religion officially merged and incorporated their nation into the pagan empire of Rome and Hebraic Judaism as God had intended was no more.

Remember, this is a quote from Ben Franklin.  I understand what he was saying but I also understand completely what you're saying as well.   Franklin was speaking mainly about religion from a personal level not a corporate one. 

Many many religious wars were fought, all in the name of God,  but those with no faith at all have no boundries when it comes to their wickedness.    At least, the religious will only go so far in their wickedness. 

The AC will, as you say,  will use religion for his own benefit to control and murder the masses, all under the guise of peace and religion, but he will throw off that yoke of religion after he gains his foothold (Rev 17-18).  Government has always used religion for their own benefit and religion also has used government to gain what they want as well.  They are two unusual bed partners that have done more harm than good over the centuries. 

That's ridiculous.  Those of us with no faith have plenty of boundaries - based on intellect.  There are certain things that it does not make good sense to do.  Morality does not require a god.  It only requires thought.  

There isn't much thought left these days.  Seems every organized anything, be it religion or government, would prefer to TELL you what to think and have you just accept it out of hand.  And man...that IS easier.

It's also a sin if there ever was one.

Back to Washington's Farewell Address..."reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "If there is no God, everything is permitted."

Morality based upon God's laws makes many people (granted, not all) behave better. When a person is down what does Atheism offer?  

You're good at criticising Christian morality, but what does Atheism offer in its place?