ABSTRACT
It is often thought that there is a peculiarly close connection between God and morality. Whenever Royal Commissions are set up to investigate some topic that is thought to be a distinctively moral one (prostitution, pornography, abortion, etc.) it is thought by many people to be appropriate to ensure that one or more divisions of theists (Christians, Jews, et al.) are represented. The assumption seems to be that religion (or perhaps theism) has some especially close connection with morality. Perhaps the thought is that a theist is more likely to be a moral person than a non-theist; perhaps it is that a reflective theist will be some sort of moral expert with a hot line to God.
