Can objective morality exist in Atheism?

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(1) In my country we call that kind of false modestly 'fishing for compliments' and the speaker 'a wanker'

(2) If you honestly have so little confidence in your own intellect,I apologise sincerely. ( I think Adrian may have stolen it)

I was neither fishing for compliments nor doubting my intellect. I'm just outlining that sometimes I do have a tendency to ramble and digress from the topic. Perhaps I misspoke, but I'm not above being called out on something you might deem as verifiable BS. This is the heart of reasoned debate. I see that I didn't really convey that message well, and it did seem like attention whoring. Whoops.

BTW, I rather enjoy the UK, other than the traffic laws and the MOT. I'm assuming that you're a Brit.

Either way, I don't think there are any moral absolutes or objective values in the world, I don't think anyone here does, other than those who quote the Bible as a moral text for humanity.

I propose a better question:

Should similarities between the vast majority of those who identify with atheism be considered dogma? This goes to the theists who see atheism as a worldview.

I understand that from an untrained and misinformed eye, it can look a bit religious and somewhat dogmatic. Why is that?