As a society we depend on the belief and faith in God to keep us going. Many forms of religion pray on this and the idea that God is a higher being able to point humanity in the right direction because no ordinary human can set the authority over ourselves. We have to have someone who knows all right from wrong and is able to do such mighty things without his rules having to be questioned or argued against. We have depended so much on this idea that it has become nearly impossible, in the eyes of most humans, for anyone to live a good life without faith in God or a religion of some sort. In fact, after reading chapter five, “Morality and Religion, in the book, The Fundamentals of Ethics, by Russ Shafer-Landau, it has even become an ethical
