&gt; Philosophy might be able to do that too, but the west doesn&#x27;t seem to be aligning behind any one philosophy.<p>The West was never united behind one religious moral framework even when it had, at the highest descriptive level, one dominant religion -- <i>both</i> racial&#x2F;sexual equality (as cited above) <i>and</i> strong racial&#x2F;sexual discrimination were justified by reference to Christianity; likewise both religious tolerance and religious persecution have been.<p>&quot;People don&#x27;t agree on one moral framework&quot; is an issue, sure, but its not a new issue in the West, nor is it one in anyway linked to the decline in the dominance of Christianity.<p>&gt; And there are no credible purely philosophical moral frameworks to pick from.<p>There are plenty of moral frameworks not grounded in religion to pick from (everyone, inevitably, <i>has</i> a moral framework, and lots of people don&#x27;t have religions.)<p>Not sure what your criteria for &quot;credible&quot; is, or how you&#x27;ve determined that no existing non-religious moral framework satisfies it.