I posted this in a different thread yesterday:
I know of athiests with a well-developed sense of right and wrong. Ayn Rand comes to mind. So do all those Greek philosophers, and legions of "virtuous pagans" from antiquity. Yet, in spite of this evidence, people continue to say that without god there is no morality. But there obviously is. On the other hand, there are allegedly religious people with ghastly morality (Jim Jones is a great example.) Religious folks say "Oh, he's not REALLY religious!" But it seems to me that the existence of morality is quite separate from belief in god.
The good old No-True-Scotsman fallacy.
What a joke! What a lousy example! Ayn Rand cuckholded her husband with his closest friends. Her philosophy, like Darwin's shows a brutal disregard for the sick and the weak. No, there is nothing moral in the absolute selfishness that she proposed. Doing what one pleases is not a moral code.