Maximizing Moral Virtue

[GUBU]

Well atheism (especially without any appeal to the history of communism) has the benefit of newness. It's a fairly new idea to be so widely adopted which is partially why I raised this topic to begin with.

No it really isn't.  Atheism is as old as the hills, so old that the earliest identifiable christians in the 2nd century were called atheists by the Romans.  In India atheism has a very long heritage, with the jains being an openly atheistic religious people and many within buddhism and even hinduism being also openly atheist.  Plenty of Greek poets, playwrights and philosophers were also personally atheist.

Atheism is older than religion.

If men are free to invent their own meaning and assign their own value to the words right and wrong what is stopping the gambler from telling his wife that gambling is good?
What will prevent the murderer from telling you that he is a more evolved being which has the right to naturally select his victims for death in the hopes of wiping out their gene pool?
What is stopping a corrupt mind from aiding the destruction of society?

I don't know, what is there in christianity stopping you from telling me that all these are morally good, given its human creation?