How could natural selection accountt for honesty?
Perhaps I might remind you of the parable of the good Samaritan.
People typically don't steal from each other regardless of their religious beliefs. I'm not sold on the idea that honesty is an inherited, but I certainly do believe that parental influence is the most important way morality is imparted to children. And parents use various methods to teach their children what societies' rules are.
We might also note that being Christian does not stop the ministers of super churches from sleeping with teen age boys or prostitutes.
an atheist believes we are essentially stardust - and there's no basis for any real intrinsic value there.
And yet atheists manage to enjoy the company of their fellow humans just as you do. Is that really so hard to fathom? And quite frankly, that need for socializing is more than enough answer to explain why they don't treat you or I like crap. Doing so ends up depriving people of the company of the people they enjoy being around.
If your position is that you personally only treat people well because of your belief in God, I thank God that you are wrong because you would otherwise be just that thin thread away from being a psychopath. Maybe on a bad day when you have the kind of doubts all Christians go through who knows what you might become.
Fortunately your position, like most of the stuff you've posted here, is just not very well thought out. It actually turns out the being honest has secular rewards. There is value in having your word taken as the truth and consequences here on earth for being a liar.
Even here on this site we find that people earn reputations for telling lies, for being logical, for presenting sound arguments. You are earning a reputation right now with every post you make.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
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