ABSTRACT
The religious sensibility that accepts Divine Command Morality would give absolute loyalty to God and God's will and would seek in no way to challenge the absolute nature of God's will as expressed in God's commands or the absolute and limitless nature of God's power. An alternative view is that God has established the requirements of morality by making them evident in the human relationships that human beings have. Morality is connected to religion because divine action or religious reality is the foundation of morality, but not because God's commands make actions right or wrong. Aquinas' idea is that God has put the natural law in people, making its precepts discernible to reason, and making natural inclinations an expression of the natural law. Morality is independent of religion because human beings can appeal to their moral sense of right and wrong without any appeal to God or religious reality.
