Does being atheist lead to a destructive lifestyle?

[jack]

for the vast majority of human existence, human beings have flourished and nourished their sense of spirituality without the control of prophets, demigods, and popes.

[Jonah W]

And does being religious lead to disillusionment?
I mean atheists can have morals, but why have morality when you're atheist? We're all gonna die and become nonexistent anyways. So who cares.
i'm reasoning that being destructive is not how the human species adapted. were here to survive, so our brain keeps us behaved to lead away from destruction. its just the corporations who take advantage of us, pollute the earth, and who waste all of earth's resources.

[Beletje_vos AM + VT]

Morality does not stem from religion.

[ungh]

"I mean atheists can have morals, but why have morality when you're atheist? We're all gonna die and become nonexistent anyways. So who cares."

It doesn't matter if you try to logic that one out. The fact is that we do have morals. Now the better question is "Why do we have morals?" Not "Why should/would you be moral?"

We have morality. Doesn't matter if you personally can't understand why.

[buttercup1232cer]

Well being religious is disillusionmetn and probably more destructive to our world!

Atheists probably have more morals and respect for life.

[Jack of Diamonds]

Speak for yourself if that's what you think about the value of existing and being alive. Most atheists I know are enriched by the fact that they are fully experiencing the one existence they will ever get, not diluting it by having one eye fixed permanently on a fictitious afterlife.

When an atheist acts morally, without hope of posthumous reward or fear of posthumous punishment, that action is more noble than the equivalent theist action.

How can you claim to be more moral than atheists when you are driven to perform good works in order to gain benefits for yourself after you die?

[Nate]

Not really, religion can just as easily lead to a destructive lifestyle. AKA "I can just be forgiven later, so who cares?" and many atheists want to do the best they can with their lives, as its all they get.

And not necessarily for the religious part as many people do stay religious their whole lives, and would only be disillusioned if there is an afterlife and its not their idea of it.

[thorny rose]

Being an atheist means you have a handle on reality. We know that society determines morals and we usually have higher morals than fundies. We enjoy life because we know it's the only one we get.

[thorny rose]

Being an atheist means you have a handle on reality. We know that society determines morals and we usually have higher morals than fundies. We enjoy life because we know it's the only one we get.