I am aware of the part morality is reflected in civil laws. Even speed limits have undeerlying cultural values.

I'm throwing out the bad with the worst. The deist past also had become so very tired of the religious persecutions and religious wars between Catholic Monarchs across Europe. Today's "Christian Nationalism" movement is exactly the strategies and the policies of of the 1930's "National Socialist German Workers' Party. Allow me to suggest the series on Netflix titled "Hitler and the Nazis - Evil on Tri.al."