WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER...

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And now that God has been ceremoniously and conveniently stripped from society... EVERYTHING will be based on public opinion.

Assertion, made without evidence.

The lines will be blurred; and goal posts with wheels on what was once a moral foundation. ONE, that held all else to a higher standard.

The morals that christianity espouses, when they aren't transparently abhorrent (and conveniently interpreted to not be by apologists) are co-opted from normal human morality, and then promptly misrepresented as being the invention of, and sole property of, the christian god. It is, of course, an easily falsified proposition; countries exist where christianity is not the majority religion, and the crime rate is not significantly higher. Leaving aside that crime rates are lowering in America, they are significantly lower in secular Australia, for one. The idea that, sans the christian god, morality is nonexistent is a laughable one.

Even atheists must agree,

Nope.

that the society as we are now morphing into is due to a lack of instilled morality. I've heard here, that empathy is all that one needs to build a moral bases..... I ask, where do you find that in the general public?

Empathy is a trait that is naturally occurring within humanity, as it is a social species; it is then fostered and developed by one's upbringing, but it will exist regardless of that.

Who finds empathy, and where? A video game, or sniper movie? Perhaps an evening of s&m porn will make one empathetic?

All three of those things are regular viewing for me, and I've never committed a crime. Evidently, the things you're shrilly whining about are not the contributors to moral decay that you claim.

No, there is no tap for empathy. We hope some parent, somewhere is teaching their child how to empathize.... and not to walk by a bleeding person in the street who may be our child!

Do you know anything at all about the biological development of empathy, before you decided that there isn't one?

Do you not find it strange that our society is now embracing almost everything that is counter to our sense of natural order?

Don't mistake your opinions on what's natural, for the factual case: many of the things you claim to be unnatural are naturally occurring. How arrogant, to assume that the things you approve and disapprove of are some kind of "natural order."