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Jen0125 posted...

Why do you think atheists don't believe in right and wrong? You don't need to be religious to be a moral person as decided by society.

I'd like him to explain how it is humans existed for so long before religion as we know it was formed. Sure you had pagans and stuff but using his logic we should have self destructed long before anything like the Bible. Humans are supposed to be logical creatures and thats what separates us from regular animals. So at some point our ability to use reason would have (mostly) overridden our savagery and it would have become quite apparent that going around murdering/raping/pillaging etc everything in sight was not a recipe for success. We used our cooperative skills to form tribes/nations and the larger they became the more was at stake. Even if you still had wars between rivals, certain behaviour was largely rooted out from inside by laws whether written or not. Because nobody wants their tribe/nation/society they spent time and much effort building up to collapse.

The point is the "moral" codes that we know formed based on observations. Things like religion were then used later to reinforce these ideas along with trying to understand the world/universe at large. As we gained more knowledge about the universe, and continually do, there is less need for that supernatural side of it. And the civic side was/is taught already. There is no reason to be studying religion unless you want to be a scholar in that field. Take a civics class instead.

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