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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The belief in free will requires a belief in the soul or a belief in the supernatural.  Most atheists are moral relativists and do not believe in good, bad, right, or wrong.  [/quote]

This is the type of claim commonly known as "horseshit".

I am an atheist.  I believe in good, bad, right, and wrong, as does every single other atheist I know.

If this is where we get to tell others what they do and don't believe, let me know, because that will be fun.  Completely worthless and false, but fun.[/quote]

It’s not BS.  
Maybe “good” and “bad” are the wrong words to use, but I don’t see how you can believe in “right” or “wrong” as an atheist.

If a tree grows it’s roots into the foundation of your house necessitating an expensive repair, you might say it’s “bad” (or bad for you anyway), but you wouldn’t say that the tree was morally wrong, right?  Trees don’t make decisions.  
But how are you different from a tree?  You have a brain, you can walk around, you experience love and empathy and emotions that a tree does not.  However, like the tree, all of your actions are based on your biology.  Anyone with *your* brain structure and your exact set of circumstances would always do and say exactly the same thing.  Your mind, what you perceive as your “self,” is simply a set of synapses firing.  You have no choice to do something or not do something any more than a tree has a choice to grow it’s roots into your foundation.

If people have no choice to act or not act, and they are always going to respond in exactly the way that their biological brain and body dictates, then it makes no sense to say that anything is “right” or “wrong” or to believe in universal moral and ethical principles.  I agree that people can do things that are “good” or “bad” for others, depending on your perspective, but it makes no sense to give things people do a moral or ethical twist.  A mosquito might bite you and give you malaria, and that’s bad for you, but it doesn’t make the mosquito evil.  That’s what mosquitoes do.

If you are an atheist, believe in nothing beyond the physical world, and at the same time you believe that you can make “right” and “wrong” choices because *you* are made of something more than your brain and body, then you are going to have to explain to me exactly what that thing is.  [/quote]

I and the other atheists posting here do not "have to explain" anything to you.  It's clear you have set ideas of what atheism is that do not coincide with reality.  Atheism is lack of  god belief.  That's it.

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