Atheism and morality

[FallentoReason]

@Inigo

I lost interest in this thread after you avoided my post somewhere at the beginning... but I can't help to point out a crucial mistake of yours. The common theme that I'm picking up on is that you claim that [objective] morals "instruct". Saying that something *is* wrong doesn't mean one *ought* not to do it. The former is merely a statement, an observation, an opinion while the latter is a command. Your job is to take us through the philosophical minefield to get from A to B:

• Action x is morally wrong
  
• Action x ought not to be performed
  

There is a huge void between the two which you have just been assuming to be bridged for the last 15 pages. Any moral ethics 101 professor would strongly disagree with you.

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Which, ironically, takes all the altruism away from your percieved altruistic nature.

Yeah. Well the definition of altruism is still being bickered about in a lot of quarters. Technically a fly landing in a spider web for a spider to eat is altruistic according to the most common definition.

I consider helping someone without receiving anything tangible in return to be altruistic.

I don't consider a "feeling" tangible in that sense.

Sounds like you're an indirect realist...