3. Atheists, where do your set of moral values come from?

Atheists, where do your set of moral values come from?

I don't really know how I make moral decisions. But I don't think other people do either. Here's a Ted talk on that:

https://www.ted.com/talks/petter_johansson_do_you_really_know_why_you_do_what_you_do?language=en

And I'm pretty sure religious people aren't making their decisions based on set of moral values codified in the holy book. If they did they wouldn't all be coming to different conclusions based on the same book. What's really going on is that your deity is a construct in your head and you project onto it whatever feels right to you.

So, for example, pro-LGBT Christians imagine rainbow-flag Jesus, and anti-LGBT Christians imagine no-cake-for-gays Jesus. There isn't some hypothetical Jesus underlying that, there's just that state of mind where you feel something is right and that drives your personal religious narrative.

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