Is that a raven I hear? I do believe it just quothed.
If you only held those morals because of your faith, then those morals were never really yours to begin with.
If you like, you can think of it as replacing your faith based morality with a sense of social responsibility.
After all, what imperative is there to be a moral christian if you can do as you like as long as you repent? Worse still, Jesus taught that your deeds are irrelevant, the only thing that matters is faith.
If you only held those morals because of your faith, then those morals were never really yours to begin with.
If you like, you can think of it as replacing your faith based morality with a sense of social responsibility.
After all, what imperative is there to be a moral christian if you can do as you like as long as you repent? Worse still, Jesus taught that your deeds are irrelevant, the only thing that matters is faith.