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Originally Posted by asaris
His main theoretical goal is to show that belief in God is necessary for ethics.
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What?! Are you sure you're not confusing Kant with Descartes? I've got it black on white here in my philosophy text book that Kant believed that religion was no guarantist for moral. He had a secularized view on religion, and said that religion could be purposeful only as an guiding help. He also says that bibical stories shouldn't be read as facts, but one should analyze the moral in the biblical stories.
To understand Kants ethics, you have to understand his epistemology. Synthetic a priori, categorical imperativ then the