Doesn't it require more personal responsibility to be an atheist?

It's funny that atheists and agnostics are the "immoral godless heathens." Theists take the "easy way out". They have a book with all the answers, "OH NO! What do I do? Lets see...there it is, stone her!" and whenever they have urges to do something or actually act on them, their good book explains.. oh well it wasn't that you're sick person for wanting that, the bad red guy tempted you...

My favorite quote on this, "Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right."

In short, yes.

confident. once you're surrounded by utilizing a theist-ruled society, while god-calling is drummed into your head by utilizing social norms, media, colleges, ordinary communication etc etc etc, it takes a good number of self-discipline to maintain an atheist attitude. it extremely is particularly ordinary to GET to a minimum of one, in fact, some persons by no ability had the different view, even from early youthful human beings (i'm a sort of -- faith merely by no ability appeared to have ANY validity to me) yet confusing to maintain it. human beings are social animals, and our society tells us at each turn that we are incorrect. renounce to un-reason may be undemanding. yet i might rather swim upstream and be attentive to that i'm precise than to bypass alongside with genuinely everyone else and be attentive to that i'm being a hypocrite. .

Yes, of course it does. I'm always flabbergasted at the way believers sometimes blame their bad behavior on Satan, demons or whatnot and refuse to take any responsibility. The way they assume that praying can take the place of rolling up their sleeves and actually helping. The way they never have to think but just get all their opinions and moral decisions handed to them. The way they pray the guilt away rather than taking responsibility for their actions.

We have to actually ask the person we wronged for forgiveness instead of copping out by saying god forgave us.

Injustices in the world will not be corrected in the next life, we need to fix them now.

The biggest point is we don't have a scapegoat who's already taken punishment for all of our crimes, letting us off scotch free.

Atheism is the inversion of the individual life choice submatrix of the world matrix. It possesses a group homeomorphism to the set of theistic choices, and therefore, by definition, is morally equivalent in a global sense. Individual atheists and theists may align better with the vibrations of the Energy Flux Absolute, but they correspond on a 1-1 basis with each other.

Theists and atheists alike are so arrogant, with so little cause to be so.

Christians have a lot of personal responsibility.

We need to be responsible for trying not to have ourselves sin.

We need to be responsible for helping others not sin.

We need to be responsible for helping others in any way possible

We need to be responsible to stay humble and unprideful

We need to be responsible for telling real teachers from false teachers

We need to be responsible to raise our family good in faith

WE need to be responsible for reading the bible

We need to be responsible for many many many things....

also if we wrong somebody we have to apologize to the person we wronged to make right, not just some invisible friend who never talks back.

possibly. but if you took fundamentalist Christian theology in its simplest form, you'd get the same thing. technically, ALL you have to do is believe in Jesus, so you could, theoretically, do any amount of evil and go to heaven.

quit using logic, you know the response you will get. remember if you could reason with a theist, there would be no theists