Where do atheists get their morality from?

[Angrboda]

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.

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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.

The ancient history of China was much the same. For a few thousand years, until sometime in the first millennium BCE, Chinese spiritual practices focused on divination, practiced by shaman, in order to help the people arrive at a "fortunate" (lucky) result to their plans, hopes and dreams. There was nothing moral about it. It was reading of bones and tea leaves.

The Spring and Autumn period gave rise to a blossoming of religious philosophies, but these philosophies took no heed of the growing practice of god worship, and were largely secular in nature. To call these systems "religious morality" in the Western sense associated with the Semitic religions would result in the grossest of distortions.