“Morality and all of its associated ideals are rooted entirely in the presupposition some higher power defines what is correct for human behavior.”
I agree with your point, but the reality is that the heart of atheism is the elevation of one’s self to that higher power that defines what is correct for human behavior. In that way the presupposition of the higher power is honored in atheistic arguments.
Everyone worships God. Those that claim otherwise have only posited themselves as God.
“Morality and all of its associated ideals are rooted entirely in the presupposition some higher power defines what is correct for human behavior.”
I agree with your point, but the reality is that the heart of atheism is the elevation of one’s self to that higher power that defines what is correct for human behavior. In that way the presupposition of the higher power is honored in atheistic arguments.
EXACTLY. Most of them just want to play "God."
Plato’s Euthyphro is a great illustration...
Socrates advances the argument to Euthyphro that, piety to the gods, who all want conflicting devotions and/or actions from humans, is impossible. (Socrates exposed the pagan esoteric sophistry.)
Morality is impossible, because all humans have different morals... Claims of morality is sophistry without some singular higher power defining what it is.
Likewise, morals are such a construction of idols used by the Left as a rationale for them to demand compliance to their wishes in politics, which most often are a skewed mess of fallacies in logic. Morals are a deceptive replacement for the avoidance of sin.
Today, "morals" are defined by a quasi-religious pagan philosophy based on esoteric hobgoblins. A greater number of "atheists" and "pagans" adopt the same hackneyed tenets of a faux Judaic-Christian ideal (golden calf). They also subscribe to the Judaic fetishism of "sin," but will fight to their death in denial of it. Most of them are so wrapped up in their own polemics that they have become nothing more than pathetic anti-Christians with the same false hypocritical philosophy. They just slap a new label on it hoping nobody will notice - - they replace the idea of "avoiding sin" with "morals."