Where do atheists get their morality from?

[Red Celt]

It started with the Neanderthals as I probably already stated especially since the other two were not around at the time the Neanderthals were developing their worship.

Worship? Are you being serious?

Decorating the burial-site of a loved one (probably with something that they liked when alive) is an understandable expression of grief... and of loss.

How you get from that to worship and the transmission of religious morality... is a pleading of the gaps that you can't possibly expect anyone to accept. I'm amazed that you've managed to convince yourself, let alone anyone else.

I'll repeat my earlier statement about Ancient Greece. They had their gods... a whole pantheon of them; and they certainly decorated the graves of their loved ones (and I'm understating the word "decorated" very much). But you know what they didn't do? They didn't have a religious law from their gods... no religious morality.

Their connection with their gods was... don't piss them off. They went to temples to ask for good things in their life, and made offerings (usually small carvings) that they thought that their gods would appreciate. Why? So that the blind-chances of happen-stance might turn out well for them.

How they treated their fellow humans was all about empathy and reciprocity... or how powerful they were, compared to those that they might consider mistreating. Basically a magnification of what you see when you observe chimpanzees: reciprocity and hierarchy.

And that was a little over 2000 years ago.

And you're trying to argue a case 70,000 years ago, based on the decoration of neanderthal graves?

Jesus wept.