Does Religion Make People Moral?

From The New York Times-

Over the past 15 years, my country, Turkey, has gone through a colossal political revolution. The traditional secular elite that identifies with the nation’s modernist founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, has been replaced by religious conservatives who, until recently, were largely powerless and marginalized. The religious conservatives have by now come to dominate virtually all institutions of the state, as well as the media and even much of the business sector. In short, they have become the new ruling elite.

This political revolution has had an inadvertent outcome. It has tested the ostensible virtues of these religious conservatives — and they have failed. They have failed this test so terribly that it raises the question of whether religiosity and morality really go hand in hand, as so many religious people like to claim.

More here-

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/opinion/does-religion-make-people-moral.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20171128&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=6&nlid=72655576&ref=headline&te=1