ether he knows it or likes it or not.
The "anguish," "anxiety" and "forlornness" man feels in this state of great responsibility without God is an inevitable by-product of his freedom. The existentialist is against any philosophy which tries to replace the discarded religious ethics with a secular morality. He is against this substitution because it creates a false world in which everything is fine and the same values that existed under religion continue to exist as guides for all men. To the contrary, the existentialist holds that a world without God is not one in which everything is fine at all. He is "distressed" that there is no God, because it means that there is nothing outside of a man which will tell him what the values are which he should honor and seek to express in his life. The individual alone must determine these values for himself, and, in doing so, for all men. However, even within the individual there is no essential guide which will help him determine his values
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