I am not suggesting that without God there would be no ethics or no order. There is order and ethics in the school yard. It is the survival of the fittest and goal to get the best girl and largest clic, as in nature. What I am saying is that our present system of ethics and an orderly society are very much based on our view of God – whether or not there is one. The orderly society in Japan and Saudi Arabia are quite different from America. Why? We are all human are we not?
My question: if we were not “brainwashed” by a system of beliefs but moved into the natural empirical-rational society sans this “opiate”, would we have the same order, the same respect or deference for the weak (our hospitals and homeless shelters are full at great cost - as Scrooge would say); the same “fair play” as we have in today’s western Judeo Christian society? Are virtue, the volunteer spirit (hardly apparent in Japan) and other “esoteric” qualities prized today necessary or are they vestiges of a society merrily going along the wrong road-chosen by our collective free will, but errant none-the-less?
Or is there, just maybe, a divine nature evolving within the human spicie that compels us to greater accomplishments and a higher order of relationships not required by the natural order of human nature?
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