Atheists; what do you base your morals on?

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But turn-about is fair play. If the literal minded atheist demands that the bible must be taken completely at face value, then he has the same objectionable attitude as a fundamentalist Christian. Point is, it's very easy to be a fundamentalist, you don't have to think passed the surface of the text. It's also very easy to be a literal minded atheist. Neither take the time to consider anything beyond what's right in front of their faces.

If turn-about really was fair play, then you wouldn't be insisting that you know anything at all about the bible.

The problem with accepting symbolic interpretations of the bible- especially if you're only doing so for some passages while taking literal meaning from others- is that you always run the risk of seeing something that the author never intended. By what right do you assume that your symbolic interpretation is anything other than a product of your own head?

Furthermore, it's simply staggering that you can advocate simultaneously for a position in which interpretation is allowed, yet the one you've settled on is the only possible real truth of the universe.