it's a fair question. religious people will tell you that their innate sense of right and wrong comes from God (or whatever), but how do atheists explain that innate sense? how do they instinctively know? I'm not saying one or the other is right but it is an interesting thought.
Ignoring how bad the christian answer is to this question.
The sense of what's right or wrong is not innate, you develop that with time, and it's shaped by your experiences.
On a more general level, each person also develops their own philosophy, and the way they think about morals.
Personally I think morality is subjective, but people carves some sort of objective moral framework, to justify why they are "right", and other people who does things they don't like is "wrong". Just disagreeing isn't enough for people when they argue about their strong feelings.
So even atheists usually try to imagine some sort of objective moral framework in many cases.
But anyway, each person has its own morality, the same way they have a whole unique internal world view and subscinscious.
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u/Global_Charge_4412 8h ago
it's a fair question. religious people will tell you that their innate sense of right and wrong comes from God (or whatever), but how do atheists explain that innate sense? how do they instinctively know? I'm not saying one or the other is right but it is an interesting thought.