darth_ender said:

Yes, nothing shows the superior intellect of atheists than confusing correlation for causality. Too bad I see it everywhere on the Net.

You seem to have completely misunderstood my posts. Nowhere in my responses to PostPraetorian did I ever claim atheists enjoy any such superiority, nor did I ever claim atheists have any moral high ground. He(she?) was the one who first offered a logical argument that one could reasonably expect a Christian to be more likely to behave with a moral compass, and be less likely to commit petty crime, because of various specific facets of a Christian upbringing. He is the one still sticking to this viewpoint. When I pointed out that statistics did not support his claim, he asked me to offer any argument as to what forces might forge an atheist's moral compass, or prevent an atheist to commit a petty crime. I thought my language was clear that one could construct such an argument - not that such an argument was true! In fact, I pointedly stated that neither of our arguments would constitute anything but speculation.

He asked for an argument, I provided one. Just like the one you provided regarding blacks. Just because I provided it doesn't mean I subscribe to it any more than you subscribe to the one you offered -- he seemed to think that such an argument couldn't exist. To use your tense, I have observed that many Christians believe that there can be no source of a moral code without religion. That's just bogus.