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Eh, i don't know about stolen ipods or what-have-you.
I don't think morality comes from religion. I think religion just offers a roadmap (one that is very often full of errors).
A moral is just a highly prioritized rule; don't murder, don't steal, don't fart in a crowded elevator. Greed is moral if your morality dictates as much. The details aren't important when it comes to the validity of morals. What is important is the justification for those morals.
I think that being religious makes it a lot easier for a person to justify (or not, depending on your perspective) their morals.
"Why shouldn't i steal? God says so? Well shit, i don't want to piss that motherfucker off, he's like, omnipotent, or some shit."
As opposed to "Why shouldn't i steal? Because it's wrong? Why? What if the person is rich and won't even notice it gone? What if i need to feed my family? What if they stole it from me first? Fuck that, i'm finna go rob some motherfucker. Or not."
Stealing can be moral, if you want it to be, so can the decision to be completely amoral.
From my personal perspective, i don't care where you get your morals, if they are either a) closely aligned with mine, or b)not fixing to fuck up the nouns that i care about, then they're fine with me. I guess that's kind of like the golden rule.
In any case, they all have arbitrary roots, and as such the inherent universality of any set of morals should be doubted with extreme prejudice.
All that being said, i don't think the person who refrains from stealing because of some self defined arbitrary set of rules is any better than a person who refrains from stealing because some deity told them not to. I don't think adhering to your morals is a competition.
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