[ArGee]

Yes, but many of us have come to our pro-life convictions based not on religious teaching, but on rational examination.

That's what you think, but your rational viewpoint has been prejudiced by being raised in a culture with a primarily Christian morality. If you had been raised in Sparta, you would not think that a prolife stand was rational at all.

Most people who believe in atheistic morality simply have no idea how much their culture has influenced their thought patterns.

Shalom.

[helmsman]

That's what you think, but your rational viewpoint has been prejudiced by being raised in a culture with a primarily Christian morality.

Well that's interesting. I was brought up in a broken home (you have no idea how broken) in the middle of liberalville and I'd been pro-abortion (not merely pro-choice mind you, but pro-abortion) for most of my life. You know what changed my mind? I opened an embryology textbook...

[Dimensio]

Most people who believe in atheistic morality simply have no idea how much their culture has influenced their thought patterns.

"Atheistic morality" simply implies a morality uninfluenced by any form of theism. As such, it's not a defined construct so much as a definition of what it isn't. In other words, there isn't any single "atheistic morality" -- any morality uninfluenced by theism is "atheistic" in nature and there are any number of ways it could be expressed.