Reegar said:
But while the question may be relevant to some religions, the question is irrelevant to someone's lack of belief in God.
Sure it does. If a belief system has undesirable or unappealing end-results or implications, that changes how people view it.
Morality and theism at their core are two different things. Christians, for example, are a bunch drawing an abstract connection between the two.
I'm not saying atheists don't have morals and I'm not saying theists do. I'm interested in the justification for those morals.
Ryan McAvoy said:
Short easy answer = Because I feel empathy.
I don't need a God to tell me that something is wrong because I can work it out for myself using my brain. e.g. I would miss my family if somebody murdered them so I know somebody else would be sad if I commited murder.
That of course extends and answers every other moral question.
It doesn't though. Lots of people have felt empathy for some and still done terrible things to others.