“A good teacher does not issue orders one after the other and demand assent from her students; a good teacher shows the students how to come to the right conclusions on their own. If God were to have given us an infallible set of answers to our moral questions, God would have been consigning us to moral immaturity and ignorance. That kind of unassailable source of moral knowledge at our fingertips is a way of evading the kind of moral struggle that produces virtuous people and virtuous communities. A book dropped from heaven takes all of the hard work out of it for us. That construct promises us certainty, it promises us hard and fast solutions to moral enigmas, but what it delivers is dependence, lethargy, and self-righteousness. This construct is held up as God’s very word to us, but it is a cheat sheet; it is the answers in the back of the book. Precisely by offering us an unassailable set of moral axioms - ready-made - it removes the necessity of the only thing that can make us moral and virtuous people: struggle.”