Ethics and law are two very different things. An act can be lawful and yet not good, an act can be illegal and yet good. Rosa Parks broke the law when she sat in her seat. I&#x27;m not saying that had she been an atheist she couldn&#x27;t have acted, merely that you don&#x27;t obey the law just because it the law.
Plus almost all legal systems have a Judeo-Christian basis thanks to history, colonialism and international trade. Even more than that most are either Roman, English or Napoleonic - so hardly a pluralistic background.<p>The concept of &quot;no good without religion&quot; has a pretty decent intro with both sides at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Secular_morality#Morality_requires_religious_tenets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Secular_morality#Morality_requ...</a><p>Personally utilitarianism, often held as the secular morality, threatens to go down some really dark paths and has done so. You could easily see how things like eugenics (widely practised in the West until the Nazis put it beyond the pale) became popular, and it was the Catholic church who led the fight against it.