Quote: Does Atheism Lead to Nihilism?
No, it does not.
Theists like to think their morality comes from gods. They aren't used to trying to justify it logically. They can't think how that would work.
So they assume that, without gods, they would be without morality.
But the fact is that they would, usually, have pretty much the same morality without god as with god. There's a saying, something like, "In the metaphysical supermarket, most people select their morality before their religion."
"God said so," is hardly a moral foundation. Some theists assume that atheists have no foundation for morality, but anything would be as good as "God said so." We can always justify our morality at least as well as they justify theirs.
We have the same moral impulses they do. And our attempts to systematize and justify those impulses don't have to include blindly following orders like a guard in a Nazi extermination camp.
When William Lane Craig says that he doesn't know of any reason not to rape, aside from the fact that his god says not to, that puts him just a hair's breadth from nihilism. What will he do when he realizes there is no reason to obey his imaginary eccentric?
