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In reply to the discussion: Where do you atheists get your morals? [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)a-THEISM is a lack of belief in theistic ... stuff.
The fact that I don't believe in any supernatural beings doesn't provide me with a moral framework for interacting with others. I arrive at that by entirely different means.
Theism is not just a one-way street, you project faith in one direction, and it projects back at you dogma by which to arrange your life, including a moral framework.
Atheism isn't even a street. It's nothing. Lack of.
Therefore, Rug is correct, it is silent on this subject. The correct objection to his original premise would be, 'you weren't asked how atheism provides you morals'. The general question is, whence do atheists get morals. (Since we do not respect, believe in, recognize, etc, the 'supreme source' for such laws to a theist)