[joebuck]

"...had many God-deniers tell me, quite self-righteously I might add, that they lived by a high moral code without the aid of any “opiate” or “crutch” like Jesus or Moses"

Without the constant, eternal, revealed word of God, what is a moral code? What is the foundation of morality? Without God there is no moral code. Or more accurately, there are many moral codes. If fact, with no God there are as many moral codes as there are people on the world at any given time. Without the fixed constant of God, Hitler was just as "moral" as Mother Theresa.

[gcruse]

” Without the constant, eternal, revealed word of God, what is a moral code? “

Something that facilitated Chinese civilization for thousands of years without recourse to ‘God’?