Rich Lowry says there is no freedom without religion, because there is no freedom without morality, and no morality without God. In fact, it had better be Lowry's own God, just to be on the safe side.
I have progressed over the course of my adult life from militant evangelical atheist to lattitudinarian, but I have never understood this notion of "God-given morality".
It's always seemed to me that if morality is simply whatever God says to do / refrain from doing, then it's only happenstance that taking an axe to your grandmother isn't a sacred duty.
On the other hand, if God is restrained by *God's* innate sense of morality, then God is irrelevant -- we are obliged to do good no matter who does or does not do good, no matter who does or does not exist.
Did I miss something?
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