But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

Greenwood links the vitality of law to a shared religious belief, arguing that legal rules alone are insufficient without an underlying moral “heart.” The quote suggests that faith in God supplies a common ethical foundation—conscience, compassion, and accountability—that helps law function as more than procedure or coercion. It also implies anxiety about secularization: if belief declines past a tipping point, the legal system may become merely technical, losing legitimacy and humane purpose. Read critically, the statement raises questions about whether civic morality must be grounded in theism, or whether pluralistic societies can sustain a robust legal culture through secular ethics and shared democratic norms.