I have a big question about Morality and how do we continue to live by it it faith is waning

Where does it come from? How do we know our right from wrong and what has informed our Western Tradition. The Tradition that has given us ALL that we have. With its 1,000’s of influences and hundreds of controversies and heresy’s and challenges.

What is inspiring our moral code now? If our secular world continues as is and less and less people subscribe to Christianity (or whatever Abrahamic code we want to hold up) what binds our legal code together?

Do we accept that our legal code contains morality? Is it because the people who wrote most of the laws were of the Western Tradition? This legacy is of the Roman and Common law that comes to the United States from England. It is the basis for our AGREED to Rule of Law.

I know some of you are far smarter and have done much more work on this that I have. What do you all think? Is our moral code pretty much set? Could it loosen as we move further and further away from our Western Tradition? What is to keep us grounded as a society without those guardrails?

During my religious enlightenment, I experienced a deep dive into the history of the Church. I also explored the history of the western tradition. Some of you may know I have a degree in History. And that has always been my focus in life. Why do we do what we do? And what came before?

In that journey, I had always avoided philosophy. I avoided it. The one philosophy class I took in university coincided with a very deep depression. This happened in my final year of school. Frankly, I do not think I was mature enough to understand the Philosophy of God at 20 years old.

I have recently been going back and revisiting philosophy. The Catholic faith is a mixture of three modes of thought – Platonism, Aristotelian and Stoicism. (and five other things but those are the three pillars).
ChatGPT tells me the following:

Stoicism informed the Catholic approach to virtue, suffering, and moral discipline.

Platonism influenced the Catholic concepts of the soul, the afterlife, and the search for divine truth.

Aristotelianism laid the foundation for Catholic natural law, moral reasoning, and the integration of faith and reason through thinkers like Aquinas.

I am really enjoying getting into the depth of these traditions. When you do this, you find out some fascinating things. Like? Neither Plato or Aristotle thought Democracy was a good idea. Both lived through chaos in the Greek peninsula and saw what damage the rabble can do. And their philosophies, which are OUR philosophies, reflect a desire for order. And they inform our codes and morality for order. And I wonder if there is a constant push and pull of FREEDOM juxtaposed against ORDER…. and I ask myself the question

Are we too FREE?