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Originally Posted by ArtificialBrandon
I'm going to agree with OAO on this one, actually. It's hard for an atheist to claim that he or she is "moral," since the objective standard of right and wrong does go out the window along with belief in a higher power. The question then becomes.. moral according to whom? Society? Tradition? One's personal standards?
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Disagree. The Greek philosphers believed in objective virtues without necessarily making recourse to divinity. At the very least, the gods didn't go about saying 'you must do this, you must do that' in the Judeo-Xian way.