ABSTRACT
The relationship between morality and religion is, to say the least confused—not least because it has never been clearly defined. Within a traditionally Christian society, the relationship of faith and morals was taken for granted. Definition, in fact, was never needed until scepticism brought with it a new basis for ethics. We see the beginnings of this modern movement away from a religious ethic in the Utilitarians of the eighteenth century. It has gone on progressively until today there is confusion in both theory and practice. New and ever increasing knowledge of the nature and workings of the universe, of nature and of man have transformed attitudes to both religion and morality.
