[EternalVigilance]

I've spent a fair amount of time looking for the ultimate moral foundation, what I've found is that most religions share most of their tenents. They might express it differently but for the most part the rules are the same. And oddly enough they're also the same as The Social Contract. Everybody has to find the way to learn these rules that works best for them.

Read C.S. Lewis' 'Mere Christianity'.

He pretty much says what you say in this particular post...but then he clearly explains the ramifications of that similarity of belief.

[discostu]

There are different interpretations depending on what your starting point is. I've read a number of Christians who have come to the conclusion that God did this to help people find the way. IMHO these are just plain good rules that are absolutely necessary for the survival of a society and it strikes me as quite natural that most sub groupings of humanity have figured it out. Of a much greater mystery to me is how so many societies figured out distilled liquor, if you know anything about distilling you know that doing it wrong is very dangerous, I definitely would not have wanted to be involved in those early experiments.