"I am suggesting that that is where our moral structures, indeed our whole body of law and ethics, sprang from: The mystical/religious view of life." - Little Hawk.
I think you'll find that morals & ethics were very much the work of kings rather than gods, up until the time The Torah was written. That was when the demarkation dispute began.

"Most religious conflicts really do boil down to nationalism of one form or another." - CarolC
Abraham left Mesopotamia on the premise that Yahweh was going to take him to the promised land where his people could murder the occupants (The Canaanites) and take their land. This is the basis for the three codes causing all the trouble.