The way that Christianity is presented at many churches, especially of the “seeker friendly” variety, that’s not an unreasonable thing to suppose. I don’t know how many times in high school and college I heard the same sermon by different speakers on elementary moral maxins like “it’s not good to have casual sex” or “don’t look at porn all the time” or “be a nice person.” I also got enough traditional theology to know that we’re not just little automitons who come together for ethical sermons, but that had a lot to do with reading Chesterton, Lewis, Theophan the Recluse, and so on. It would have been easy enough not to. We have the basics of ethics in place – but where’s the space for entering into kairos, the Eschaton, the numinous? at a lot of churches it’s presented as beginning after we’re dead.