The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

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In the sense that people are far less than what they could actually be. So much unfulfilled potential. But you ask a very good question. By what standard can an atheist make value judgments? It took me a while to realize that the moral theory  of the Nichomachean Ethics that I espoused presupposed such a standard that, as an ontological naturalist, I could not supply.

It seems to me that our technology and knowledge about the sciences have advanced far beyond that of our forebears - but our morality has not.

We have better stuff, but we are not better people.

I disagree, overall people are more tolerant of others and intolerance is seen as a bad thing. These days countries come together to fight disease and disasters there are selfless individuals who go where need is greatest. Violence is down in the more advanced and least religious parts of the world and equality of gender is at it's highest since forever. Our society has made huge strides towards better morality, coinciding with it's retreat from religious rule. The less religious the people become, the better and more inclusive the society becomes.