Morality Without God?

<p>Some argue that atheism must be false since without God no values are possible and thus everything is permitted. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God is not only not essential to morality but that our moral behavior should be utterly independent of religion. He attacks several core ideas: that atheists are inherently immoral people; that any society will sink into chaos if it is becomes too secular; that without religion we have no reason to be moral; that absolute moral standards require the existence of God; and that without religion we simply couldn't know what is wrong and what is right.</p>