It works for me. I am not blessed with the gift of faith, but I am still a relatively happy chap. I try despite all to do what is right, as I see the right, much of which of course due to my upbringing and culture, which of course is suffused by values that emanate from Christ and other serious men. So call me a derivative moral Christian maybe. Call me whatever you like.
The notion of Christ being merely another "serious man" among the great teachers of values brings to mind a famous response to that very idea from C.S. Lewis:
"I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him, 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the sort of thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or He would be the devil of hell. You must make a choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.... let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." -- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
PS - Heard you on Hewitt's show. Bravo! I only wish the Schindlers had someone of your caliber as their legal rep.
All the best,
Aaron Herald