Modern democracies assumed ethics could survive without institutions devoted to moral formation.
They were wrong.
This essay explores religion as moral infrastructure — without dogma, without theocracy — and why pluralism still needs shared moral foundations to function.
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https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-infrastructure-problem
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We separated power from responsibility — and called it progress.
But institutions can’t stay ethical if the culture beneath them no longer knows why ethics matter.
Religion once served as moral infrastructure:
• character formation
• accountability
• human dignity
• limits on power
Not theology. Infrastructure.
Liberal secularism solved governance.
It didn’t solve moral transmission.
That’s the gap we’re now falling into.
Essay:
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-infrastructure-problem
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