If one was born into a religion and when you were taught right and wrong it was from a Religious angle, then it is going to be somewhat difficult to think about right and wrong without religion.

Because when you were told stealing, killing innocents, jealousy, etc were bad the reason they gave you about why they were bad is that the Religious God said it was bad and commanded people not to do it.

Maybe way back in the day when civilization hadn't come this far and might was right telling people the reason they had to do good was because it was a command from God had the higher chance of eliciting cooperation.

Just maybe. We'll look into this on some other post, but for now there's a possibility that was the case.

In the sort of world we have today going that far to say it is a Spirit Being that commands it is just unnecessary. Simply saying you should do good for reasons like: for decency's sake, not to end up in prison, not to court vengeance, to have a better world, etc. is enough.

Especially as we have laws and enforcement currently. Doing good is for your own good and well being.

And for those above the law, that's who the vengeance and better world part is for. If you do bad vengeance might get you. Also you'll be joining in staining the world, encouraging others to stain it too, and remember you still have to live in this world, so shouldn't you rather do you part to keep it clean?

It's all for your own good, still.

Then again, there's the conscience. Doing bad usually cost a lot for most of us. We get haunted by our conscience and we wish we never did what we did. Not a full proof check and balance but it works too to a good extent, but we'll do well to not do wrongs because of this conscience backlash.

So, there you have it, an atheist's reasons to be moral.

Extra Fun Facts

Some atheists might not be upright or principle enough to come to these conclusions above and say it quite like I said it when asked. Does this mean those atheists would have a higher tendency of being immoral than a religious person who has God to think about?

Not necessarily. Because let us not forget that available to a religious person is the option of doing bad and asking for forgiveness to get absolved of the wrong doing. This option is equivalent to the atheist option of doing bad because you don't have God to think about.

So, you see, the commandment from God is not full proof either, and doesn't binds as much as people make it seem when they ask questions like where do atheists get their morality from. The commandment is weak and has almost no effect as long as a religious person knows that they can ask for forgiveness and be absolved of their wrong doing.

The religious person and an atheist is on the same footing and left to their conscience and knowledge that doing good is for your own good.

The End

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