truth dancer wrote:Why do we have morals? Why do we believe? How does our DNA effect our political views?
Check out one
Jonathan Haidt's talk on TED!More than Mormonism, I like discussing why we believe, why we see the world as we do, how our families, communities, and cultures exist as they do; why some people can leave their religions and others must expand the paradigm; how are brains are impacted by our beliefs and how are beliefs create who we are.
Anyway, Cultural psychologist Jonathan Haidt has some interesting and thought provoking insight!
No, I am not paid for promoting TED! I'm just a huge fan! 
Without getting into commenting on what Haidt has to say, I'll offer a few
preliminary considerations:
1. Social cohesion -- Human societies develop "morals" based upon which
activities/sentiments/beliefs have promoted and protected the group.
2. Personal experience -- Just as touching a hot stove teaches us a lesson, so
do the results of our other actions. Experience may teach us functional morality.
3. Examples of others -- How we are treated by our family and close associates
in life may help "imprint" a certain set of morals upon our minds.
4. Natural empathy -- Although some would argue that altruism is merely an
artifact of natural selection in human evolution, perhaps there is indeed a
deeper, less mechanical explanation why we often treat others as we ourselves
hope to be treated.
Of the four "considerations," perhaps #4 comes closest to a religious precept.
UD