'The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy'

[the phantom]

If morality exists outside of human invention, then its source is unknowable, and therefore unprovable. Logic and science have no answers to the question, “Why?”

I’m coming from the viewpoint that logic and science are useful tools and good as far as they go, but they are only tools that describe a fraction of reality, not reality itself, and are not the only routes to useful truth.

I think you have shown the importance (and perhaps necessity) of religious beliefs in forming a moral society.

Human reasoning alone does not appear to grasp the logic behind individual morality. It seems that a certain amount of faith is needed to justify a moral lifestyle, for behaving in such a way without clearly seeing an earthly incentive for the behavior does not seem logical unless one believes in a dimension of life that is not "earthly", but rather eternal or supernatural.