Exactly. These guys read like Soviet apparatchicks, shedding crocodile tears over the loss of Ethics in American life.
"If only The State were more involved! If only we had a ... a... Religion! Yeah, that's what we need! A State Religion that could train us to be Ethical!"
Absolving the individual of personal responsibility is to neuter that society.
I am not a religious person, and I have no use for organized religion. America doesn't teach Ethics, she(!) teaches Morals. Thanks to the English, Morality and Ethics are intertwined in organized religion, further twisted by American Separation of Church and State. The social deformation of "Living Under Heavy Manners" and the decadent Ethics described in this article produces such pearl-clutching. It's way too late to teach Americans to behave Ethically. We have no structures in place for such pedagogy.