Right from Wrong

I have multiple topics that have interested me today for my blog, and you might actually have to deal with two entries. However let me start with the one that completely pisses me off! I have encountered this mentality infrequently because I am mainly surrounded by educated and open minded people but every once in awhile out of left field it hits me. I recently was engaged in a conversation about the ills of pornography. I am mixed on the issue. I see both sides of the social argument and therefore just stay on the sidelines with my opinion. I said this during the conversation. The person I was talking with immediately said, “Well since you do not believe in God I can understand why you don’t have a strong opinion against it.” I replied that “I believe in women’s rights, and not objectifying a woman’s body but I am not sure how this applies to pornography.” Now it hits me what this person was implying, since I don’t believe in God, I am incapable of knowing right from wrong! What is up with that?!! I can quote an enormous list of ills committed throughout history in the name of God. Since when did we atheist give up the moral high ground to the god fearing public? If anything god allows for a fukced up sense of right and wrong, just see Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. I personally have a very strong moral code based on empathy and sympathy for my fellow human beings and the other residents of planet earth. My sense of accountability is not based on fear of burning eternally in the depths of hell. Why do people who believe in a god think that people who don’t are not good people?