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The biggest failing of "revealed truth” is that it causes so many of us to abdicate the hard work around defining what is good or bad to some great cosmic lawgiver who does not ultimately exist. It allows us to stop making moral choices at all and instead blindly follow like sheep those who would use the authority of God to manipulate us against our genuine interests. It misleads us into bleieveing that we are not responsible for those choices.

ROFL! Naturalism tells us we have no free will! How can one get more absolved from moral responsibility than that?

Dang, you are amusing!

"Naturalism tells us we have no free will! How can one get more absolved from moral responsibility than that?"

Naturalism does not believe the concept of "free will" is even meaningful. And you have hit the nail precisely on the head regarding why.

"Free will" is explicitly am Islamo-Christian theological concept formulated to justify God's eventual decision regarding salvation or damnation. "Free will" has no genuine significance in any other context.

This is another example of why I believe that atheists possess, as a whole, a superior moral framework to Christians. When atheists behave morally, they do not do it from fear of some ultimate cosmic spanking. They do it because they have reasoned to the conscious consideration of what is right and what is wrong.