Morality without faith

Some years ago the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra wanted to issue new recordings of several symphonies, but the recording company was unwilling to fund such a major enterprise. It proposed instead to issue a CD of the adagios from those symphonies and package them as a heartwarming combination of all the best tunes 'without the boring bits'.

In some ways this is also how the secular world thinks of Christian morals, ethics and behaviour. Most people think that Christian teachings about communit...