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Atheists: Where do you get your morals from?

I'm not saying you don't have any. I just wanna know where they come from?

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Combination of personal and societal views.

  • 4 years ago

    if man kind would had such long history, so much long time spent on the earths surface just like science tells: millions of millions of years and man kind in all this time, observing and writing down all the things then we should not have any question unanswered and should know every little thing from nature, we should know all the inner workings of everything. If man kind is not millions of years old but only few thousands, then the story is different, we should have unanswered questions today and there should be nature workings we do not know how they work or understand them because we did not had the time to study them?

  • 4 years ago

    They must come from the atheists Linus Torvalds, and Richard Stallman, which liberals worship as gods.

  • nobudE
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Parents. Like you got yours from.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    As a Taoist, I believe in god but my belief system has no Ten Commandments or Golden Rule. So I have to use my own conscience to determine what is right. Atheists are not the only people who don't have the Jesus bible to make up the rules for them. Many many believers around the world are in the process of fathoming morals for themselves.

  • 4 years ago

    Our conscience. I don't understand the reasoning behind this question, honestly. I'm technically agnostic, and not an atheist, but my family is. You don't need a higher power or authority to tell you what's right. It's just instinctual. Should I kill someone? No, but not because I'm religious, but because I'm a good person.

  • 4 years ago

    Corn flake packet. That's my standard answer to this spammy question.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    Atheists generally believe in things like cultural relativism & moral relativism, thus, they generally do not believe in moral absolutes. But you see, this is ridiculous because they embrace subjectivity in regards to morality.

    What if, due to subjective morality, someone thought something immoral was moral? Would it then be moral because they personally believe it was moral? No, of course not! It'd still be objectively wrong!

    Well, in this hypothetical scenario, the individual would be using their very own standard of right & wrong. See the problem with that? Because it's not objective, it would differ between every single individual & this would just not be practical!

    C.S Lewis even said in The Abolition Of Man, that when he looked around at all of the diverse cultures in the world, they all agreed on basic morality. Therefore, since this is true, morality is objective & universal & not subjective, therefore because objective universal morality exists, God also exists!

    Source(s): I'm a proud devout Christian
  • 4 years ago

    Morality comes from human nature and the society in which people live. Morality does not come from the sacred books, which are, moreover, in civilized countries very far from the commonly accepted standards of morality. Standing in the Bible, no one applies the Mosaic laws in full, not even the Orthodox Jews:

    Kill disobedient children (Ex 21:17, Mk 7:10)

    Kill witches (Ex 22:18)

    Kill those who curse father or mother (Lev 20:9)

    Kill men who have sex with other men (Lev 20:13)

    Kill those who worship the wrong god (Num 25:1-9)

    Kill adulterers (Lev 20:10)

    Kill blasphemers (Lev 24:14)

    The "morality" that is closest to biblical principles is the sharia. I doubt that you consider it as a respectable moral code.

  • 4 years ago

    Personal opinion of what is right and what is wrong. It's in our nature to have a general opinion of which is which. It's psychological. Everyone has empathy to some degree. Hurting other living things whether it be emotionally or physically triggers an empathetic response... unless you're the CEO of some company, then you're most likely a psychopath.

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