Atheism and Ethics

[Lucian]

Regarding the title to this thread, my ethics are not associated with my atheism. Rather, my ethics are quite grounded in sociology.

Apologies for the confusing title. I definitely wasn’t trying to say that ethics should be grounded in atheism. I am trying to understand ethics having come out of Christianity where I saw it, erroneously or not, as grounded in the will of God. Trying to think through what the options are now that that is no longer the case for me. I could have titled it as “ethics without reference to the god thing” but it seemed less snappy 

@The Grand Nudger I am not trying to defend abolitionism, just felt I should defend the definition of it that I think those who adopt it use.