I’m trying to understand the atheist mindset where morals are concerned. To me, morals are sound and unchangeable standards by which to live. If morals change with the changing time, then they cease to be morals and now become simple behaviors that are acceptable within the right context. Morals should not be relative to society, society should be built relative to morals.

To wit, here is one atheist’s thoughts on morals:

But I’m thinking that he [another atheist] can get his morals from the bible. Because, if the evolutionary theory is right (and I firmly believe that it is) then the bible formalises [sic] those morals already present in human behaviour for tens of thousands of years. Along with other sad departures from human morals which paint an artificially negative picture of human nature. Like selling your daughter or smashing your boy’s head in with a rock for getting a little bit drunk.

     So the bible is actually ripping off the evolutionary moral standards which have existed for orders of magnitude longer.

And this response:

I agree with [the above comment] that the bible is based on the morals that were developed by evolution. But the thing is that morals evolve over time, there is a outstanding difference between the morals of now and just 100 years ago, and the difference between morals now and morals in biblical times is unimaginable.

     While I do agree that the bible is based on morals, so people can get morals out of it. The problem I see is that there morals are 2,000-3,000 years out of date! And therefore TERRIBLE by modern day standards!

So morals do change? Well, that would make them relative to society, which means that we didn’t build society on them. So, the atheist still seems to lack a solid foundation upon which to base any sort of moral code.

I’ll take Christianity every time, thank you very much! I like not only having a solid foundation for moral codes, but also a solution to all of man’s lapses of morality: Jesus!