My former Pastor: "You're not accountable to anyone."...

[Captain Scarlet]

Ok, so we just talked on the phone, but he said that why not just look at porn magazines, why not just "live it up", because you're not accountable to anyone?? How do I answer that objection to my Atheism?? He also said, where are you going to go when "your hear melts down", ie, hard times hit? Finally, he said that morals come from somewhere, and that we are getting worse rather then better, as human beings-presumably without Christianity.

I really would like to know how to answer him.

You are not accountable to an invisible non existent being. That would be thought of as a sane thing. You are accountable to other humans, as they are to you.

Where do you go? Nowhere. Where does he think he's going. And how does he know that?

Morality in us, as other animals is a bi-product of biology and socio-economic evolution. For insatnce name a society which has flourished that thought that murdering it's citizens was OK. They wouldn't have survived. As for Christian morality has he read the bible?