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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What governs how I live my life? I don't need any external governance ... I have an internal understanding of right and wrong. Almost everybody does. [/quote]

New poster. Not being snarky- where do you think that internal understanding comes from? I am far, far, far from the conservative Christian Right. But I have come to believe that [b]we were provided this moral compass by a creator.[/b] It is when we act outside this internal sence of conscience that conflict occurs. [/quote]

Not the poster you are quoting but even supposing for argument's sake that that is true, it has nothing to do with the question.  [b]OP's question seems to presuppose you need to believe (not that there needs to be a God, but that you need to believe in it) to have any [b]sense[/b] of morality.[/b]  [/quote]

Not true. I was just wondering what "code" atheists live by.

Most Christians live by a moral code and doing what is right/wrong, so just wondering how that differed from atheists who don't believe in the belief system that governs how Christians live.

In essence, where did "morality" come from? [/quote]

So humans are born with innate concepts of morality, of right and wrong. These are programmed into our nature since we evolved as social animals who had to cooperate with each other to survive. Now, the exact form that this morality takes can be determined by religion - sacrificing children to appease the rain god, for example. Or it can be formed on a rational basis: what standards must we live by if we are to ensure the good of society, and thereby our own wellbeing: a certain set of human rights that should not be infringed, principles such as doing no harm to others and so on.[/quote]

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