>>19330508> but how can we have morality without Christianity?All of pre-christian European peoples had very similar moralities without the need of an inscribed book because they are based on our cohesive tribal behaviours. They still form the backbone of our societies today, and christians choose them over christian teachings everyday without realising it (respecting their own family rather than casting their own non-believing family out, revering their homeland rather than wanting to destroy it, valuing prestige honour and victory in this world over cowardice and submission hoping for another world to come).
"The mos maiorum (Classical Latin: [ˈmoːs majˈjoːrʊ]; "ancestral custom"[1] or "way of the ancestors," plural mores, cf. English "mores"; maiorum is the genitive plural of "greater" or "elder") is the unwritten code from which the ancient Romans derived their social norms. It is the core concept of Roman traditionalism,[2] distinguished from but in dynamic complement to written law. The mos maiorum was collectively the time-honoured principles, behavioural models, and social practices that affected private, political, and military life in ancient Rome.
During the transition to the Christian Empire, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus argued that Rome's continued prosperity and stability depended on preserving the mos maiorum, and the early christian poet Prudentius dismissed the conservative adherence to native Roman traditions as "the superstition of old grandpas" (superstitio veterum avorum) and inferior to the new revealed truth of christianity.[16]
After the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD and ascension of the various Barbarian kingdoms, the old Roman mores were then either superseded by or synthesized with the traditions of the Germanic elite and subsequent feudal values."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mos_maiorum(Cont)
