Atheism and morality

[MindForgedManacle]

Yes, morality could be a hallucination. I take it that for morality to 'exist' at least some statements of the form 'Xing is wrong' or 'Xing is right' would need to be true. And if we mean by 'wrong' something that is instructed 'not to be done' and that we thereby have inescapable reason not to do, then I think such statements will only be true if a god of a certain sort exists.

Well, that was part of point. With respect to certain goals and desires, there is - at least in potential - the capability of saying what is the wrong way of achieving them. If the claim is that because 'there are instructions on what ought not be done, therefore you should or should not behave in blah blah blah....", then that would seem to cross Hume's is-ought gap.

Note, my claim is not that the god does exist. It is rather that the god would need to if morality is to be a reality as opposed to a mere hallucination.

I would have to contest that. What about there being a god would ground morality? Why should we listen to the god(s) say is moral or not moral? I won't get into the Euthyphro Dilemma, but it wouldn't seem to make sense to say - in this hypothetical - that you simply do what the god(s) say with no concern as to why you're doing it.