Religion is defined as "any specific system of belief or practice that constitutes a code of ethics and some sense of philosophy." This code of ethics, which is called religious morality, points out what is considered to be right and wrong for its followers. Individual morality is also based on the principle of right and wrong, good and bad. However, developing individual morality is a complicated process. Philosophers throughout the ages continuously sought for the universal law that governs all moral actions, that is, a law that easily labels what is right and wrong. Religious morality is the fundamental core to this approach. Religious teaching tells us what is fundamentally right and wrong. Therefore, religious belief, while not vitally necessary, should be incorporated into every aspect in the development of individual morality, which it helps forming a foundation as well as supplying the necessary reinforcement that buttresses individual morality.
Morality cannot be intuitive because man himself does not have a rational mind to point out what is right from wrong at birth, or even childhood. What he observes and experiences in the years after sets up the fundamental concepts of his personal ethics. Attaining individual morality can be a life-long process of acquiring knowledge and truth. What really matters is the foundation which this morality is based upon. A bad foundation inevitably ends with the collapse of the entire structure while a good foundation stabilizes the edifice. Religious morality provides the necessary components to a good moral foundation. In doing this, it does not quite necessarily command but simply teaches us these basic ethical concepts, the precept to the game of life, so we can manipulate ourselves to follow what is good and right.
Part of attaining morality is to get the basic knowledge of what is truthful, to have a systematic thought processing that yields to actions that are, at least to us...