average Christian response Reminder: Jesus would want you to forgive BIPOCs for being BIPOCs; he would never tell you to pretend that BIPOCs aren't BIPOCs

The death of God; what matters is not the truth, but the scaffolding which the fiction provides. In the absence of this structure, this metaphysical mooring, what ultimate justification can there be for any moral or ethical system, given that the basis of any moral system, at its heart, boils down to nothing more than what is customary, at a given place and time?

The atheist, and his close cousin the secular humanist, may repeat with a sneer: "Through God, *all things are possible!" Invoking, with sinister derision, the great volume of atrocities which have been repeated and reenacted throughout recorded history in God's name.

But what is the essence, what is at the core, the kernel within the shell of the ethic of a 'secular' humanist, if not a Christian ethic? And worse--for while the Christian is preoccupied with the mindless repetition of rituals and dogmas which he has inherited without a second critical glance (including many, to his dismay, inherited from pagan ritual and pagan dogma, a fact which lies at the very edge of his consciousness, undermining his faith and his confidence in the courage of his convictions, poisoning every act of virtue or Christian charity by casting aspersions on the validity of his "Truth"), the Humanist, that philosophical descendant of Christ who denies his metaphysical lineage, what lies at the heart, what scaffolding supports the belief system of a 'Secular' humanist, in contrast to the mystic Christian whom he regards with such derision and contempt?

Nothing!

The ethics of the secular humanist are not even built on a foundation of sand, and yet he mocks and scorns the Christian for his blind adherence to a doctrine whose history stretches far back, to the frayed edges and beyond the bounds of recorded time.