[dmanLA]

“Ethically, Christianity teaches effeminate, sacrificial self-loathing— I’d rather have a beer with Christopher Hitchens than Andrew Sullivan.”

So where does your sense of morality come from? If we are descendants of animals, we can act like them as well, right? Why not? From that perspective, right and wrong becomes modifiable and up to individuals because it has no foundation.

Truth is, without God, there is no morality. The result of kicking God out is what you see today in the world. And it will get worse...

[JHBowden]

If we are descendants of animals, we can act like them as well, right? ...Truth is, without God, there is no morality.

This is true. In one sense, it is trivially true. We *can* act like animals, whether a given religion (in this case Christianity) is true or not. The existence of deities doesn't help us in understanding the nature of ethics (whether it is inherently aretaic, deontological, teleological, etc.)

In a deeper, Straussian sense, societies need unifying myths to even be societies in the first place. But from a less abstract perspective, if we take morality not to be a set of principles, but the routine, habit, passion, custom, and imagination involved in daily life, then your morality simply is what it is. I'm closer to Hume than Kant on this.