Anti-theists avoid morality question
Recent years have seen an influx of anti-religious publications in the Western world, as well as a growing audience for such publications. From Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion” to Christopher Hitchens’ “God Is Not Great,” anti-theistic works have poured into bookstores as atheists in the United States and elsewhere have taken on a more strident tone in public discourse. Unfortunately, their approach has been one characterized more by noisy rhetoric than reasoned arguments, and they have particularly failed in their attempt to present a coherent system of morality that in no way rests on...
What the believers fail to understand is that morality is a social and not religious issue. Moreover, morality is a dynamic feeling which changes with times and culture. For example - in the Church of Latter Day Saints marrying more than one person was not considered immoral but would be considered now. Jesus Christ consorting with a prostitute may not have be immoral at that time whereas now the very mention is blasphemous.
There may or may not be the so called "altruistic genes" but we do have the Darwinian survival instinct which instructs us to preserve our own genes and survive as a species... hence condemnation of murder, rape etc. by the collective society.
Mass murders, wars etc are brought about not by atheists but by men who profess to be religious! Religion and irrational behaviour are causing suffering and death on humanity on similiar scales as natural calamities.