Kant (Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals)

Nor could one given poorer counsel to morality than to attempt to derive it from examples. For each example of morality which is exhibited must itself have been previously judged according to principles of morality to see whether it was worthy to serve as an original example or model. By no means could it authoritatively furnish the concept of morality. Even the Holy One of the Gospel must be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before He is recognized as such; even He says of Himself, "Why call ye Me (Whom you see) good? None is good (the archetype of the good) except God only (Whom you do not see)." But whence do we have the concept of God as the highest good? Solely from the Idea of moral perfection which reason formulates a priori and which it inseparably connects with the concept of a free will.

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[J. Edward Hackett]

I know Kant is speaking about finding out the transcendental conditions of morality. He doesn't want to find the concept of morality in what people already pre-judge as moral in examples, and this includes religion as well. Yet, I recall the early non-naturalists. They thought there had to be some relationship between common-sense morality and the philosopher's conception of it.

In Kant, it is easy to get highly abstracted from the actual contexts of morality in our lived-experience.