Once in adult
Sunday School* the question before our group was something like, "What do you have to believe if everything else is gone?" The answers were interesting, and sometimes surprising. My own answer was, I have to believe that there is such a thing as
right and
wrong. Even more than a belief in
God, I need to know that there is a
good we should strive toward and an
evil that must be recognized and resisted. I have always felt that way, though I admit that my ability to do both was sharpened when I became a
Christian. I didn't have what you'd call a particularly religious upbringing; honestly, the
moral lessons I remember best as a kid were the ones I got from my
Batman and
Superman comics. ("Batman is cool. Batman believes in truth and justice. Therefore truth and justice must be cool, too." Hey, it worked.)
*It's like regular Sunday School, only with booze and porn.**
**I'm KIDDING! Sheesh.