Human knowledge and the power of rationality and logic have been celebrated in the past century, in effect since the American and French Revolutions of the late 18th century. In addition, the end of belief in God has allowed for greater adaptation and change in human culture; it has allowed people to question outdated values, doctrine, and morals and evaluate their relevance to the community and culture of today. The rapid growth of technology and the advance of humankind may be linked to this adaptability and new age of moral skepticism. These are cwertainly important things, and so to many people the loss of God seesm to have been replaced by something better, more powerful and progressive, and based on common sense and reason.
The negative effects of the loss of God are just as crucial to understand in discussing God and morality. These have often been overlooked by those who welcome all things new and better at whatever cost. The fact that society has lost the perception of harmony and unity created by divine guidance means that it can be argued that there are no universal morals left in the world. The acceptability of certain acts that were considered immoral before bothers many of us, and the term "liberalization" is often used in society when we really mean that we are without common norms of behavior or values. And the loss of God has given men the ability to make misplaced interpretations of morality and argue almost any position or value from the point that if it is moral to that person then that is all that matters. The traditional God of the Christian faith may have uncreative, dictatorial, and inflexible morals but at least they do exist and are there for interpretation. It could also be argued that the nature of man is such that he may not be responsible or smart enough to do without God's guidance; some believe that society's morals are deteriorating because of this loss.