Listen to secular music radio for about a half hour and you'll hear that most of the songs treat life as if there weren't any moral rules, and as if it was meaningless. No God means no moral code, and no meaning.
It's rather unnerving to consider "What if there really isn't a God?" And don't just say there's not without giving it serious thought. If there is no God, there was no creation by any sort of divine being. Our existence, and the existence of anything, for that matter, is, then, purely by random chance. We're all then just a bunch of accidents. "So what?", you might ask. An accident is an accident, and nothing more. How can an accident place value on anything if it's only an accident?
If we, and everything else in existence, are mere accidents, we must, therefore, be subject to no rules or laws, since the rules or laws originated from worthless accidents. After all, the concepts of good and evil, right and wrong, are based on a standard of higher good. That standard must either be created by a bunch of meaningless accidents --or goodness must necessarily transcend creation and that would shatter atheistic philosophies.
Since, with atheism, we're all accidents and there's no God, we must conclude that worthless accidents created everything we know of as good. That makes goodness, as atheists must conclude, worth less than the accidents which created it. After all, a creation can't be greater than its creator. That makes each bit of the universe subject to no rule regarding right or wrong. All is meaningless. Now you might ask, "Why does existence have to have meaning?"
I want, therefore I'm entitled. That sounds ugly, but it's far too common an advertising tactic nowadays. That want/get philosophy leads to thoughts on methods of acquisition. Since we're all accidents, and there's no legitimate moral law by which we're all bound, I am able to take anything for myself, using any means at my disposal --even if it means taking it from you. If you resist, I can erase you from existence. And hey, what about you? Yeah, YOU, with that look of disgust at my behavior! What's good for you isn't necessarily good for me! I don't like your look, so you're gone too. This goes on for me until someone takes me out of the picture and continues with his or her chapter of the story. And don't even think the police will stop us, because laws are all based on a concept of higher moral good --God, to be exact. With God out of the picture, we're just worthless accidents and there's no sense in protecting the worthless.
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