The law as a tool to influence cultural morality is as an effective tool as using a fork to eat soup. You stab it and stab it with very little success at the ultimate goal. The same could be said about organized religion. Albeit slightly more effective at gathering a crowd, the nature of religious cultural coercion has the same underlying problem, it is the antitheses of the voluntary essence of morality. You may coerce behavior with the threat of punishment, but you cannot coerce good will. Morality is not an action that can be coerced. Morality is good will, where action is the natural expression of a cooperative desire. The spoon cooperates with the soup and sip by sip fills the empty stomach.
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