But of course you don’t know what I’m talking about. That’s why you believe in your thingamajig.

Of course, those are all strawpersons. If the statement, “It’s the right thing to do,” be true, then it is a timeless, universal truth that is not contingent on any other reality. In our culture, the source of that truth is called God.

“And how would anyone know what the right thing is?”

Tell us how you decided that God is good, and you should be able to figure out how other people could decide that certain behaviours are good.

Because she can. Why would you?

So you really that everyone thought stealing was okay before Moses came down from Mt Sinai?

People who need a religion to tell them what’s right are scary. They can be told to do anything, like fly planes into buildings or bomb abortion clinics, because that’s what God wants. That’s really screwed up.

If you are saying that the only thing that stops you from raping, killing, and stealing is your faith, you have a serious problem.

So what? Why care about doing the right thing? And how would anyone know what the right thing is?

“Ms. Jones, the bad news is that your doctor is an atheist. The really bad news is that he thinks he’s God.”

Because it’s the right thing to do.

Okay, I give up. Why would an atheist help someone less fortunate than themselves?

@MarkR: I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I would love to know what you think billions of years would have to do with a timeless infinite omni-creator thingamajig, if such existed?