Morality and religion is the relationship between religious views and morals. Many religions have value frameworks regarding personal behavior meant to guide adherents in determining between right and wrong. These include the Triple Jems of Jainism, Judaism’s Halacha, Islam’s Sharia, Catholicism’s Canon Law, Buddhism’s Eightfold Path, and Zoroastrianism’s “good thoughts, good words, and good deeds” concept, among others. These frameworks are outlined and interpreted by various sources such as holy books, oral and written traditions, and religious leaders. Many of these share tenets with secular value frameworks such as consequentialism, freethought, and utilitarianism.

Armin Geertz suggests that “the age-old assumption that religion produces morals and values is neither the only, nor the most parsimonious, hypothesis for religion”.

Bertrand Russell said, “There are also, in most religions, specific ethical tenets which do definite harm. The Catholic condemnation of birth control, if it could prevail, would make the mitigation of poverty and the abolition of war impossible. The Hindu beliefs that the cow is a sacred animal and that it is wicked for widows to remarry cause quite needless suffering.”[

Religious practices like “torturing unbelievers or burning them alive” potentially being labeled “ethical” In India the practices of Sati, human sacrifice was done in some religious views only. The practices of Purdah, triple talaq in Muslim community are sanctioned as religious practices but they are not moral practices.

On other hand it can be proved that religion have not much effect on morality in people.

The Social and Moral Development Index concentrates on moral issues and human rights, violence, public health, equality, tolerance, freedom and effectiveness in climate change mitigation and environmentalism, and on some technological issues. Gender equality is highest among Scandinavian countries which are less religious. Hence what is moral may not be religious and religiosity may be not be the parameter to measure the morality.