That is a compelling arguement, and even as an atheist myself I realize I don't have a good answer, regardless of that it doesn't sway me to faith, because I, being a scientist, am rooted in science, it has been proven that my being gay was a matter of my birth and I have no control over that. Likewise it has been proven that for the first few weeks of conception a fetus is basically a bunch of indistinguishable cells that are parasitically leaching off a woman's body, so why shouldn't she have the choice to remove the offending parasite from the body?

Therefore I can't accept a religion that says I am wrong for the way I was born or that refuses to accept the science so clearly laid out before them. That a group can refuse to see what is so obvious and live in ignorance is baffling to me. Regardless even as an athiest I'm lived a perfectly moral life to a Christian (besides the gay thing).

These things are immoral because society as a governing force has deemed them immoral. We have decided it's wrong. It's like language it's complex and strange, but only because everyone decides it so. If we all decided to call cats, 'florgs' or whatever instead then that's what they would become. It's a mutual agreement between all parties. Science shows that when a person dies, they lose sentience they become nothing. They can't enjoy what they had. That's reason enough for me not to kill Perhaps I worship science. Or perhaps like Satanists I worship self. I find it strange that you need a God to tell you right from wrong. There are places in the world that are very religion free and those places haven't fallen to anarchy yet.

Also what is wrong with no stable aspect of morality? That's a good thing! How else would divorce have become legal or gay marriage or left handed people not being ostracized. If we use science and logic we can shed the outdated and crippling disease of our ancestors and become new and better. By clinging to old superstitions (like in the Bible) you don't allow change or growth. Religion in my opinion was a product of the time, and it helped people through some dark days. Now in this age of reason and enlightenment, it isn't needed anymore and should be cast aside. I honestly believe religion does more harm than good, but I try to be respectful of other's belief, and I'm not trying to tell you what to believe just what I'm feeling and why I think it's possible to be a moral atheist and why I am an atheist.