templdl said:
Just where did learn morals and ethics from?
Since you asked...
Religion is based on faith in, and usually obedience based on fear of, a diety, from whom we receive the rules of life. If one claims to not believe in said deity, then they rationalize that the rules do not apply to them.
I believe that the rules of life have nothing to do with a deity. They are based upon being the kind of person that cares about his fellow man and, more importantly, what kind of person he sees himself to be.
In other words, I didn't teach my son that he must follow the rules of life because God is always watching him, but because he himself is always watching, and that doesn't depend upon a blind faith in an unprovable being.
From
this link is taken the following excerpt:
"A certain non-Jewish "wise-guy" came to scoff at the Torah . . . to the home of Hillel. He said, "Teach me the Torah while I am standing on one foot." Hillel responded. "No problem! The main idea of the Torah is 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' Everything else is commentary."
There are variations on this, such as "That which you find hateful, do not do to others." This is the basis of the Golden Rule which is, in my opinion, unrelated to religion; it applies equally to believers and non-believers.