Online Discussion on "Atheism and Morality"

Respected Sir,

          Sumit Paul in his article talks about “Atheism and Morality” in which at the focus he uses the tag line that “Atheists also have a Definite Moral Code”.  

        His article starts with, “Morality has been hijacked by Religion”. To which I truly concur, because it is now our general belief that one; who believes in religion is the only follower of the morality. And for the non-believers of the ‘God’ and ‘Religion’ are known as ‘an Atheist’ or ‘Immoral’; who has no morals and often no hearts. But that is not true at all. Therefore he beautifully gives the various examples of Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus as well the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and writers; who never had believed in pagan gods as well they had rejected the idea of heaven and hell. But, they were though followers of their own morality; which they had never compromised. He further refers Gautam Buddha who also was non-believer of god or any supernatural power.

          It is our usual thinking that those who do not believe in god are immoral at their doings. But sometimes we too find one; who is truly a religious man; who believes in God, but he is a murderer; whom has killed hundreds of people and used to go to chapel or church for confession of his doing and still continues doing on. So isn’t he a immoral? But it is our settled mentality that we consider a man as highly moral at his stand if he goes to temple, mosque or church or is follower of any pop, dharma guru or kazi. But in the current situation we find it as a absurd thing where we in this real world find such cases of fraud and coning people on the name of religion.

            In the other hand I would like to give an example out of one literary text “The Heathen” (Heathen= used for a man who is irreligious or uncivilized; mostly used by colonizers for Negros) by Jack London; who describes in his text how one can being a irreligious or non-believer of God can be the most moral person as the character of Otto is described here; who throughout his life obeyed his master and at the end he sacrifices his life to save his master. So from that onwards my thinking towards this rigid minds has been differs a lot in this particular matter. I ultimately agree to Sumit Paul that “Atheist also have a Definite Moral Code”.

Thank You so much for sharing this article Sir!..