If it wasn't for religion

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No, just their moralizing. If the backbone of your moral pronunciation isn’t at an appeal to some eternal truth, then just stay home with it. Watching you moralize, would be as cringey as that Gillette commercial, as watching Sam Harris give a Ted Talk on the Moral Landscape.

An atheists will always be moved by a strong moral sermon of the religious, while they lack the strength to do so themselves, it’s more sickly pleas, than prophetic calls to repentance.

How does appealing to a god bolster anyone's moralizing exactly? Saying that killing is wrong because God ... does not make sense to me.

I said eternal truths, telling me that killing is wrong because it’s violate some profound and eternal law, is a bit more persuasive
than telling me killing is wrong because society thinks so.

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Atheists can have conviction in something greater than themselves -- reality; this is far more inspiring and profound than anything offered by a god

And their version of reality lacks any moral aims and purposes, doesn’t convince a man to take the hand off of his brother neck, or laddle benediction on the heads of strangers rather than curses.

All their version of reality tells us is all is permissible.