The answer, clearly, is that he would answer to himself, an ethical proposition with which I have no problem. You don't need a "boss" to be ethical, you need your own conscience.

The belief I was referring to, which may not be one of yours, is held by some Chroistians and states, roughly, that the natur eof man is that he is born as a sinner, if by Original Sin only, and that he cannot avoid this condition and must expiate it by catering to The God in various ways.

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