Thanks for the LINK:
***...Many repeatedly ask me this question: why should decent and well-intentioned people need Judaism or Christianity? My answer: decency as a moral guide tends to allow compassion to trump justice. Good intentions alone almost guarantee the triumph of heart over head. Civilization’s survival ultimately depends upon balancing the competing demands of thought and feeling. Religious faith alone offers a blueprint to balancing intellect and emotion. Biblical culture provides balance between head and heart. This is the secret of our past and the hope of our future as individuals, as parents, and as citizens....***
Without the basic moral absolutes which are essentially the same in every monotheist religion, human society is nothing better, and indeed, in many ways worse than, animal existence.
This must be the chicken or the egg question. How do people know right become decent and well intention in the forst place. Usually because we are taught by parents and pastors right from wrong. How would these people even know what decent and well intentioned was unless someone taught them.