As an atheist with a Catholic upbringing, & a high moral/ethical standard, shouldn't the way I treat others be more important than religion?

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

Yes, it should and it is.

There is this caution.

All through (recorded) history, people have struggled to define what is good, what is right. And there are conundrums. For example, if there are ten people in a lifeboat but only enough food for eight, who should go without? Should someone be thrown out of the boat? Or should everyone slowly starve?

Yes but then again a lot of things are more important than religion.

Irony is being so adamant about a NO THING of God to spend all their time dispelling the truth of God which is validated by nature.

It certainly is. It is nice to see one raised is such circumstances can do that. Rise above the standard under which you were raised...very good.

No, you are just desperate to justify your pride. You will even use 'Good Deeds' if you can keep Jesus away. God help you if it works.

Yes.

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