>>10802874>Why would children being raped be a bad thing Are you a Catholic priest? They seem to struggle with this same moral dilemma that is so stunningly clear to the rest of us.
>if there is no supreme being to legislate absolute morality.First, there's no such thing as absolute or objective morality. Even if it was possible, you'd have to explain why Ra, Jupiter, Odin and Zeus are not the givers of objective morality. The followers of those gods had every reason to believe their gods were the givers of objective morality. How can you prove yours to be the only exception to the time-honored rule of thousands of other gods and religions?
Second, there's hundreds of examples in human history where men make morals and not a single example of where gods wrote them.
List of moral codes written by men
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Code of Urukagina - scribed by men
Code of Hammurabi - chiseled by men
Egyptian Book of the Dead - written by men
Talmud - written by men
Rig Vedas - written by men
Bible - written by men
Draconian constitution - written by men
Koran - written by men
Corpus Juris Civilis - written by men
Tang Code - written by men
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List of moral codes not written by men
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Believe admit their morals were written by men, but then they add that fairy tale bit on the end that these men were "inspired" but some invisible supernatural being. Theists can't even prove their gods exist, much less make the logical claim that any such morals came from their storybook characters.
Atheists are just as much human as you. A moral compass or a moral sense of right or wrong is in human nature, the difference is atheists don't need a children's book to explain that to us.
