Where do atheists get their morality from?

[genkaus]

I think you have the basic idea right, though your conclusion is one I disagree with. Christians can't measure up to to the example set by Jesus Christ in the New Testament. That standard is impossible and is regarded well even by those in other regions, and by some atheist too.

Exactly my point. The game is rigged against you from the start. Set up an impossible standard to determine what is good and declare everyone who falls short as evil. The Christian morality doesn't tell you how to be good, it tells you that you are evil and there is nothing you can do about it.

I suspect you may agree that serving other people is a worthwhile cause, but perhaps I'm wrong.

You're wrong.

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Weren't you the one who was telling me that we learn our morality from authority figures, our parents and elders? Or did I hallucinate that?

There I was talking about what is and here I'm talking about what should be. Growing up we do accept moral concepts from authority figures - the same way we receive a lot of other education form them - because we don't have the capacity to figure it out ourselves. But once we grow up, we are capable of looking over it ourselves and making that judgment.