Atheist moral code

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It is entirely to each individual atheist to decide on their moral code.

In general, people get their morality from their conscience, their experience, their upbringing, their empathy, but most of all just using reasoning to evaluate the benefit/harm of various possible actions. It's something humans do naturally and we're generally pretty good at it.

The thing is, theists do exactly the same thing. Exactly. All they do is claim their morality is righteous when it lines up with a bit of their holy book or teachings. When their morality doesn't line up with their holy book or teachings, they ignore it and do what they think is moral instead. So in effect, they are using their own morality to filter god's "morality". The sad exception to this is when they go along with something they know to be immoral, out of a sense of duty, because the religion makes them feel compelled to. In this way, it's just an inferior system to what atheists use, and a hypocritical way of not having to justify prejudices when they can hide behind their book.

Funnily enough, I've noticed a far more consistent set of general morals from atheists than I have from theists. So the idea that theirs is objective is laughable to the highest degree.