In the United States, Christianity is seen as the guider of the prevalent, moral consensus through the simple fact that Christians are the majority and hold their morality from Christian teachings, indoctrination, and reading the Bible themselves, at times. Christians argue against other morality that threatens their assumed “moral authority” by stating that if you do not believe in “God”, anything goes. Which, to some extent they do have a point. However a disciplined, learned mind, with reason and logic on their side, can quickly conquer not only this statement, but also offer a morality that Christianity cannot obtain, a more righteous ethical system, that is based on logic and reason, aside from belief that “god says so”. What we can gather, that if you are not a believer, the Bible was written by awful archaic people, with inferior morality by today’s standards, who try to pawn of their morality as coming from the “one true God”.
Considering much of the old testament morality is seen in the Western Hemisphere as morally bankrupt now, we can see how obvious it is today that this “objective morality” has changed over years, centuries, to adapt to a less religious, but more of a reason backed morality and value system, which does have a tendency to shine through, even in believers. However, there is still cherry picking of morality from the old testament. Currently the gay agenda is something that is “objectively” wrong, because “God” says so. Never mind the numerous mentions to stone adulterers, or to judge not lest ye be judged, or to love one another as you love yourself. Yet the believers fail to recognize that this morality was not of their “God’s”, but of reason. Or they do have their reason, which isn’t very noble to hate and discriminate against gay people, but they use the Bible to back up their preconceived notions of homosexuality. Yet the same people claim their morality is objective and of “God”. What they fail to see, is that their morality is indeed not objective, it is merely believed to be. Some of their morality is backed by their own reason, some is caused by a herd mentality, and some is due to their indoctrination. Due to the ever evolving morality of Christianity that is evidenced throughout it’s history, it is obvious we have nothing close to an objective morality in Christianity, and due to its judgment based on believing god exists and believing that god told them these rules, we have a baseless morality founded upon belief and an archaic backwards morality. It is not founded on reason and logic conducive to values that people hold dear, thus making this morality not only subjective, but also unreasonable and irrational.
The origin of reasonable morality is through the values one holds. Christians, holding the bible and their belief in “God” which somewhere along the lines gets misconstrued with a knowledge of their “God”, fail to understand this. They only understand that morality comes from their god, that they believe in, which essentially has been formed through the same way as any other religious god who tells people what to do, through the writings of men, spread through a local culture, until the entire world has become indoctrinated. For the origin of morality, please reference my blog post, The Core of Humanity https://ruminationfactory.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/51/.
But as alluded to earlier, reason and logic of our modern values oft shine through, and that is the job of those moral, or good non believers, to provide a reasonable sound morality, based on knowledge and logic, not belief, not the writings of an immoral archaic people, who promote misogyny and stoning of adulterers, or killing those who are homosexual. For reasons outlined above, religious morality will always be inferior to that which can be derived from logic and reason, and that is how religious morality bends to pressure of logic and reason, why Christianity evolves, and why one day, they will likely accept homosexuality. After all, it is in the O.T. only, just like all the other nonsense that is ignored, from commands to not eat pork or wear multi-fabric clothes, to condoning slavery. This will be justified by something the bible says, they will claim, because Jesus loves us all, allowing them to ignore and cherry pick some more, until one day hopefully there is nothing left to ignore but the entire whole goddamn thing itself.
Be good, have a good day, and most of all, be ungodly, for the sake of humanity.