(March 3, 2013 at 7:13 am)Confused Ape Wrote: golden rule
Atheism says there is no more reason to obey the golden rule than to obey it, changing it from a rule to something that one person considers to be a good opinion to have.
Atheists do not have the Golden Rule, atheists have the Golden Opinion. Of course no society in history has ever been run off of Golden Opinions, and the only atheist societies in history that have followed the utopian and naive dreams of a society ruled by good opinions have been the Communists, who, predictably, turned out to violate these utopian principles more than anyone else.