Atheism and morality

[Inigo]

I don't think we have seen the definition of morality for a while.

From the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.

The term “morality” can be used either

descriptively to refer to some codes of conduct put forward by a society or,
some other group, such as a religion, or
accepted by an individual for her own behavior or
normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons.

Nothing there implies even slightly the need for any sort of controlling law giver it even says code of conduct put forward in the definition of morality.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/

Well, just look at that last line. A code of conduct is a set of instructions. And 'put forward by all rational persons' is just another way of saying that the instructions are inescapably rationally authoritative.

And once again, instructions can't just exist - they need to be issued by someone. And to be inescapably rationally authoritative the person issuing them would need to have control over our interests in an afterlife and be vengeful. A person like that is what's known as a 'god'. Deal.