Of COURSE atheism is a religion, they believe in "nothing"!

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23. You never made the claim that morals may come from atheism.

You have tried repeatedly to demonstrate this point, but your responder seems to feel the need to say the same thing, but not quite the same thing, to make it appear that maybe you did.

Yes, there is no morality to learned from atheism. But then again, no one says it does.

Yes, morals can come from religion, but as anyone can see, those morals are culturally dependent on whether they are judged as good or bad. Religion is not a source for good morals, even as many, if not most, believers of religion claim the opposite.

Whether something is morally good or not is dependent on the culture of the questioner. Not religion, not lack of religion, but culture.

Atheism makes no claims about morality, but there may be a good argument that being a non-believer today in this country, may make one more moral, because atheists tend to do the right thing because its the right thing to do, culturally.

But to say that religion teaches moral would be incorrect, as any morals derived from a religion would be the interpretation of the believer and his/her culture at the time.