On Jul 20, 9:28 pm, Gary Childress earthlink.net> wrote:

The locals cultural conditioning and lack of imagination instill
stagnation.

Morality
"Morality (from the Latin moralitas "manner, character, proper
behavior") has three principal meanings. In its first descriptive
usage, morality means a code of conduct held to be authoritative in
matters of right and wrong. Morals are created by and define society,
philosophy, religion, or individual conscience. In its second,
normative and universal sense, morality refers to an ideal code of
conduct, one which would be espoused in preference to alternatives by
all rational people, under specified conditions. To deny 'morality' in
this sense is a position known as moral skepticism. In its third
usage, 'morality' is synonymous with ethics, the systematic
philosophical study of the moral domain." -- wiki

Religion
"A religion is a set of beliefs and practices, often centered upon
specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and
human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law.
Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings,
history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious
experience. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices
related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication
stemming from shared conviction." -- wiki

Good
"In religion, ethics, and philosophy, the phrase, good and evil refers
to the evaluation of objects, desires, and behaviors across a
dualistic spectrum, wherein in one direction are those aspects which
are morally positive, and the other are morally negative. The good is
sometimes viewed as whatever entails reverence towards either life,
continuity, happiness, or human flourishing, while evil is given to be
the support for their opposites. Depending on the context, good and
evil may represent personal judgments, societal norms, or claims of
absolute value related to human nature or to transcendent religious
standards." -- wiki