Atheism, a dangerous idea?

Humans evolved as a social species and to be able to cooperate and thrive there must be some sort of "rules of engagement" that are understood. Call it the golden rule or whatever, atheists and theists both share the same genes.Just for the record have you ever observed other animals interactions and social structures? Canines have a "top dog" and underlings of various rank, some birds (turkey buzzards here in FLA) have a very complex "pecking order". Where do their morals/rules come from. What about chimpanzees, where did they get their morals? And if your god didn't set them down in the good book for them, why would he have to do it for us?Edited by kjsimons, : spelling

You've totally missed the point. The point being if other animals have devised/evolved moral codes/rules of engagement, why can't man have received his the same way? Why would we have to have some god(s) hand us down a bunch of rules and threatening us to get us to behave? The answer is we don't!

Fine, I agree that it is human nature to believe in god(s), I just don't see that as evidence for god(s) and definitely not the Judeo (sp?) Christian gods.