The argument from morality is scary.

[FallentoReason]

Theists seem to think that the argument from morality (because morality exists, god must exist) is one of the stronger arguments that they have. I hear it over and over again in debates. To me it is both scary and insulting.

The insulting part is that it implies that Atheists are bad people. Because we don't believe in god we somehow are likely to rape and murder and molest children. This is despite all evidence to the contrary, that Atheists commit less crime and that being religious actually makes you more likely to molest children, maybe due to sexual repression. Although I don't think, perhaps for political reasons, the subject has not been adequately studied.

The scary part is that behind that suggestion, is that anybody making the argument has the desire to go out and rape and kill. The only thing keeping them back is whatever holy book they subscribe too. I worry about these people. Is this argument basically a confession by whatever person who is making it that they have an inborn desire to do terrible things? Is it really a belief in god that is constraining them?

I forgot how I got onto the topic with a Christian friend (when I used to be a Christian too) but he said that he doesn't understand why non-believers "aren't out there having as much sex as possible before they die, because they have nothing more to live for". This actually really scared me, because as you say, the thing keeping him back from acting like this projection of what he thinks a non-believer should be like is the Holey Babble. Maybe this disturbing projection is to do more with the meaning of life, but I have no doubt in my mind that he's just as capable of thinking up of an equally absurd question to do with morality.