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Originally Posted by streetwaves
You may not realize it, but your argument does lead to the idea that without a belief in god, people wouldn't have any conception of what's right and what's wrong. Unfortunately that is incorrect, and I'm living proof of that. The fact that my parents or their parents were brought up Christian or not doesn't matter - I don't have a belief in any higher power to help ground my moral principles, and I have as good or better a moral sense than your average theist.
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Again, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that without God, there's nothing to stop you from dropping all your morals the moment they no longer agree with the situation. We live in a society where acting morally does benefit you the most. This is partly because we live in a society constructed around Judeo-Christian moral codes, which in turn depend largely on the Greeks. But if our society crumbled and all of a sudden money didn't mean anything and everyone had to physically compete for resources, how would you justify being good if it meant starving or being killed?