The private and public purpose of religion

Can you be said to be moral if you make a principle of having no moral principles?

If you have no moral principles, you are a nihilist and a nihilist is an atheist who denies the existence of God.

To say you can be moral without moral principles is as meaningful as saying you can be full while being empty or leave a room without going out of it, or claim the rule of law exists in the jungle.

There is a school of thought that equates morality with conscience but what might trouble one person's conscience would not trouble another's if they have different moral principles.

Morality is a system of rules designed to keep the group in existence and apart from others. That is the purpose of religion, which has two purposes: public and private. The public purpose of morality operates through the law, the private purpose of morality is spirituality operating through a clear conscience.

An atheist nihilist is not necessarily a criminal, but he only obeys the law because he fears punishment. His moral standards would be lower than that of someone who wants to obey God's laws because they are God's laws with the policeman that is God already inside his head.

It is not to be confused with having a clear or troubled conscience.