For this Quest, I am choosing to take a deeper look into Rowlands’s religion-based answer to the question of why we should be moral. According to Rowlands’s section titled God is Watching Us, the answer to the question of morality that he provides in this context is quite shallow. Using Rowlands discussion in this section, he asserts a claim that one of the main motivating factors for a religious person to be moral can be boiled down and reduced to “prudential” reasons. If I am interpreting this correctly, Rowlands’s use of this term is to say that religious people choose to act morally simply out of fear from what would happen if they were to act immorally. To Rowlands, acting morally gives someone a ticket into heaven while acting immorally
