Why are Christians so opposed atheists being moral?

In the words of Adolf Hitler, if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough, people will believe the lie.

So, so many Christians are brainwashed into believing atheists are immoral although in reality that is not borne out, but they like to believe it. It makes them ever so much more special.

So thumbs downs are the same thing as trying to loudly say that atheists have no morals. Judge not lest ye be judged is not something some people adhere to because somewhere along the way they were told they had the right to be judgmental.

Then there are several trolls here who sit with several puppet accounts open at one time to make it easy to thumbs down or thumbs up people.

Whoa!! Back. Up. The. Bus. I'm a Christian and frankly I prefer atheists to have moral standards. If we, as humans, didn't have some common moral grounds then we'd have hell on earth. (slight pun intended) I cannot judge you on the choices you make for yourself. Wait. That's a lie. If you murder, rape, pillage etc....then yeah, I'm going to judge you. If you choose to wear stripes, plaids and polka dots together I'll take you to get your eyes checked but probably judge your fashion sense. To judge you for being an atheist? Nope. Can't do it. The way I see it is like this. My job as a Christian is to get you into a relationship with Jesus then it's hands off. My job is done. It's not to use scare tactics like you'll burn in hell for eternity or whatever. Jesus never gave me that kind of authority and he hasn't given it to anybody else either. If He had can you imagine how less populated the world would be right now? I sin. I admit that and I'm not proud of it. I'm judgemental at times when I don't know a persons story but if you ask me to pray for you I'll do it in a skinny minute. I can't speak for others but this is my Christianity and while I know I'm not perfect by any stretch of the imagination I do know, with every fiber of my being, that I am a child of God and I am loved by Him.

Why are Christians posting to suggest they are so mentally unstable that is how they will behave if their faith wavers and become a danger to themselves and others?!

Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!

Government statistics show that Christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime whilst year on year government figures show atheists make up only 2% of the prison population!

The Catholic Church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/paedophile crimes of their priests alone!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it‽

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra

I'm not opposed to atheists being moral. The problem is that they have no way of grounding their morality. By that I mean that they seem to observe moral values, yet they can't explain where those values come from. How is it that we know things like murder and hurting people is wrong? In a world where God does not exist, terms like "good" and "evil" have absolutely no meaning. We have to have some idea of what good and evil is before we can call something good or evil. Where else can that come from except from God? Lots of people will say that it comes from culture, but that would mean that you're going to have cultures that have a radically different idea of what good and evil is, and no way of judging between the two. So how could we judge another person or another culture if they have a different personal opinion of morality? Well we couldn't. It would be every man for himself. But that's not the world we live in and we all know it. We observe horrendous acts of evil every day, and our innate sense of right and wrong is appalled and offended. Please explain the concept of morality to me, if God does not exist.

Morality doesn't come from Christianity because if it did 100% Christians would be moral and looking back at their track record the less said is the better. Christians and atheists both are deluded about from where morality comes.

A lot of the fun of being Christian is thinking about how, even though you are not perfect, at least you are better than a Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Mormon, Scientologist of atheist. Any time a person from one of those groups takes the high moral ground, it's a buzzkill for Christians.

Probably, they were just thinking the Christian would be more moral, and thumbed down answers suggesting otherwise, because they did not agree with them. Plus most people on here tend to defend their own group, anyway, and atheists sure as hell are no exception! Just look at the anti-theist circle jerk that usually takes place on here, and how much ANY answer that's even remotely theistic in nature tends to be thumbed down into oblivion...

..Actually, I think it's kind of refreshing, seeing it happen the other way around every once in a while, for a change! But then again, I'm probably just a little bit biased.. Because even though I'm not a Christian, I'm still very much a believer + spiritual person, in my own way.

EDIT: funny how all these thumbs down really just help illustrate my point! Thanks atheists!

*Smiles saccharine sweetly.* :)

They've been brainwashed into thinking of us as evil....me a retired University Lecturer, nit her of two doctor son's and lovely grandchildren. We treat others as we would like them to treat us......Just don't believe in your god.....after much research couldn't.

I can't believe that theists wouldn't be moral without their ministers telling them how to. It's innate in US..empathy and a conscience and the common sense to know that to be good to each other leads to happy lives.

Mo University Lecturer Atheist with degrees in Theology ComparativeReligious Studies and Philosophy of Religion and Eng Lit

Why are Christians so opposed atheists being moral?

- Because we use "intelligence" to determine morality rather than being "told" and they cannot reconcile that, since "thinking" is a sin and to determine morality with thinking means it cannot be moral/morality.

Sure atheists can be relatively moral. But they are still living in sin. I'd love to see every one of them come to repentance and receive Christ.