Atheism and morality

[genkaus]

I don't have faith in the existence of a god. I have faith in the existence of instructions that have inescapable rational authority. But not in a god. If someone can show me how instructions that inescapably confer reasons to all to whom they are directed could be created by something other than a god, I'm all ears and I'll instantly drop my belief in a god.

Why would anyone even try to do that when no one believes such instructions to exist in the first place?

First, you must establish that such instructions exist - then we can talk about where they come from.

Do you believe that there are some acts that are not to be done, even by those who really want to do them?

Contextually, sure. But that doesn't make the instructions to that effect rationally inescapable.