Unbelievers, why do behave like there is a God?

to spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months debating the God they "don't" believe in??? me thinks they protesteth too much! LOL!

You prove the non existence of any sort of loving god with your posts!!

So how does this primitive belief survive? The answer is simple and very down to Earth!!

Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.

They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!!

Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!!

Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.

Sadly Christians are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!!

What do you mean ? Since we know that there is no gods or devils in existence we act accordingly if acting like a human is confusing you then we are so sorry that that book has screwed your mind up so much . Try this , pull your self away from the book for a minute and step out side . Now tell me is it day or night

Unlike the "faithful" I don't need a sky fairy to tell right from wrong. I behave properly because I want to obey the law and to help others. I don't need gods or spirits or demons or any other superstitious childish nonsense to dictate my behavior. If you do, my sympathies.

went to a baseball game this summer.

the whole section was sitting, relaxing and enjoying the game. then one person stood up to get a better view. well that forced the person behind him to do the same as now he was blocked. Then the person behind him, and so on, and so on.

Very shortly my whole section was standing.

Now the whole section had exactly the same view as we did before, only now we are all standing and uncomfortable.

I choose to sit.

QED

I do not believe, nor do I "unbelieve". Everything simply always was, and always will be. Don't make the same mistake as the Protheans.

Because doing good deeds to help my fellow men and to make myself feel good. We are the only life forms (that is known) to be intelligent, so why bother destroying ourselves?

You are an idiot. Go die in a hole. You are the fly on the ******** of a pig

If you do good simply because you fear hell and hope to make it to heaven then you are not really a good person, your just a person on a leash.

We don't.

We live with what we call "human decency". You might want to look it up.

Unlike many believers, we don't need the threat of eternal torture to keep us in line.

Your question makes no sense. Behaving well is not predicated on God's existence/nonexistence

What good behavior?