“Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.”
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The Need of Atheism
Context: Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality. Atheism alone is the surest way to morality. Those who oppose atheism in any form betray their vested interests in inequality of some kind of other.
"What Critics Are Good For" (1988), p. 69
The Culture We Deserve (1989)
Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.128
“All laws stand on the best and broadest basis which go to enforce moral and social duties.”
Pasley v. Freeman (1789), 3 T. R. 51.
Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. II. "Christianity", p. 24
Source: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy
“Business is the real test of the moral life.”
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 17.
“Atheism alone is the surest way to morality.”
The Need of Atheism
Context: Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality. Atheism alone is the surest way to morality. Those who oppose atheism in any form betray their vested interests in inequality of some kind of other.