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Is There a Morally Perfect Lawgiver?
Every aspect of our moral experience as a species is more compatible with an atheistic world view than with a theistic one. Under atheism, we would expect that human beings have certain relatively universal moral instincts which can be shaped through upbringing and culture. And it's the fact that atheism predicts each of our aspects of ourmoral experience perfectly that we think makes it a better explanation for that moral experience than theism is. We don't see in scriptures a mismash of good moral principles and irrelevant social codes - just flatly evil chings. There is no evidence that the universe itself has a sort of teleological principle towards justice,. whereby people who act justly are rewarded and the wicked are punished