Reply #26: Dawkins is fabulous! His explanation of why atheists are as moral or more

[cui bono]

than religious people who follow the bible is great. Paraphrasing what I heard him say on a radio show... he said religious people don't follow the bible word for word, they pick and choose what they want to follow. What they believe is right and just and moral. Atheists do the same thing, but rather than choosing from something that was written down by other people they choose from what they experience and learn from life. And presumably both are doing it in order to be a better human being, but atheists do it out of simply wanting to be a good person and do right by humanity, where as a lot of religious people do it out of fear of going to hell. I just thought that was a perfect way to describe why being an atheist doesn't rule out being moral, and in fact an atheist can be thought of as being more altruistic.

Looking forward to watching those clips tomorrow.