Chris, I’m sorry but if you’re truly a dyed-in-the-wool atheist, the only logical conlusion of your belief system is nihilism, suicide, or hedonism. After all, life has no real value or meaning under an atheistic worldview…humans are just a bag of flesh and chemicals, essentially. Your moral beliefs are entirely arbitrary and self-serving, in the long run, to your (cosmically speaking) short existence.
I’ll never understand people who openly embrace the atheistic worldview and then turn around and say something like, “We should legalize gay marriage” or “the war in Iraq was wrong”. What difference does it make if gays can get married or the war in Iraq brought the country to the brink of instability and violent sectarian conflict? Humans don’t have any purpose other than to reproduce anyway, and there’s still plenty of our species left, correct? Under an atheistic worldview, the notion of “rights” are meaningless abstractions and can be easily jettisoned in favor of whatever fashionable new ideology pops up. See: Nazism and Communism, both of which were atheistic, collectivist worldviews. In the United States, rights are considered to be God-given concepts, not legalistic proclamations. (Doesn’t have to be the Judeo-Christian God per se, although that’s the one most of the Founding Fathers were referring to.)
Unless, of course, by “atheist”, you really mean you’re “agnostic” or “deist”…in which case, you can ignore my argument altogether.
