[krapp]

This may come as a shock to you, but morality and ethics do not presuppose religion. The rationalists and atheists don't have to replace religion with anything, they just don't need to invoke fear of the wrath of an imaginary sky father to justify being a good person.

[wahnfrieden]

I can't find the news/study at the moment but read recently about the opposite being the case: belief in a Christian god / such higher power resulting in weakened feelings of guilt from complicity or participation in wrongdoing