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Because we really believe in morality even if there is no supernatural being giving it to us.

But morality is a supernatural being. A belief system based on good vs evil or right vs wrong. Before one can know what is right or what is wrong, one must look to a template of behaviour. Your just relying upon the blueprint for modern life with no credit given to its Creator.

My Creator is not supernatural at all. He is manifest in all things including ourselves. One can not look into the night sky or into the eyes of our children and not be awed by what we have been given.

But morality is a supernatural being. A belief system based on good vs evil or right vs wrong. Before one can know what is right or what is wrong, one must look to a template of behaviour. Your just relying upon the blueprint for modern life with no credit given to its Creator.

I disagree with this, as do most atheists. We believe than Man is able to understand good and evil without a Creator. Virtually all religions and belief systems have some form of the Golden Rule, and that rule is a moral rule that does not require a Creator to give or explain it. Our fundamental disagreement, and one that will almost certainly not get resolved, is the idea that this template of moral behavior must come from God, and not creatable by man.

One can not look into the night sky or into the eyes of our children and not be awed by what we have been given.

We atheists feel the same way. We just disagree about the cause (giver).