Choosing religion as your moral base is a bad idea, Jeffery!

We've had religion for over thousands of years, and yet crime persists, religious people continue to commit crimes, many prison inmates are believers, and we still require secular laws and punishments to reinforce moral principles.

If the hell and heaven threat was powerful enough to end crimes, it would have ended crimes a long ago. If God-fearing people cared about good and bad, they wouldn't engage in hurting others. Religion has nothing to do with being righteous and everything to do with being right.