Reply #19: The bias against humanism and atheism is deep

[daleo]

I recently was speaking with a self-proclaimed atheist on the subject and even he claimed that fundamentalist Christians can't help it if they respond to a "higher morality". I tried to point out the contradiction in his own statements - maybe I got through.

Although I am a believer of a sort, it doesn't seem lately (or from history) like formal religious observance correlates with practical morality to me. If anything, the converse appears to be true.