re: NY Times ... ‘happiest of all’ American wives are ‘religious conservatives.’

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You do not have to have religion (promise of divinity) to know what is right or wrong here on earth.

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You speak as if there is one standard. How does one derive this one standard from nature?

The fact is that without God, there can’t be moral absolutes. Hitler’s standard of morality and Ghandi’s standard are equally valid in an atheistic worldview because there isn’t one standard to compare them to and determine which is right or wrong. There cannot be a universal right or wrong if atheists were consistent with their presuppositions.

Any attempt to create one (such as maximum happiness for maximum people) is arbitrary and amounts to nothing more than personal preference.