If you're a psychopath maybe. I hate to break it to you, but you're talking to an atheist who has a pretty solid moral framework. It's been built up over my life from my parents and other role models I had. A large number of my friends are the same, and it'd apparently surprise you, but most of them are conservative libertarians to varying degrees, yet are agnostic or atheist. Also, I'd point out that ethics are based on logic, and outside of crazies like PETA members, most people are going to conclude that there is an ethical difference between sentient life, as in humans, and non-sentient life like ants. So this statement is pure grade-A bullshit.
I'm curious, where does this need to paint people as amoral come from? You realize this is the kind of shit the SJWs do, right? Where they paint everyone who doesn't agree with them as evil. Maybe you want to reexamine how you look at things, lest you take on the same mentality as the NPCs.
I don't have a 'need to,' I'm simply pointing out the truth.
An atheist can be a plentifully moral person. That's not something that stems from their atheism though, in fact, it's something that runs
against their atheism.
To be clear, I'm more specifically referring to western 'there is no supernatural' strains of atheism. There are some who'd argue that certain forms of Buddhism and other religions are a form of atheistic, but a very different thing than the materialistic atheism of the west.
If you think I'm wrong, please, feel free to explain the logical philosophical foundation for morality within materialistic atheism. I've yet to see someone manage to pull this off, so it'd certainly be a new experience for me.
And all the wars before were? Christian leaders of the past centuries had no problem with their armies ravaging the christian lands of their christian opponents, engaging in mass murder, rape and pillage as normal part of campaigns.
There's a reason I called it 'christendom.' So very much was done, and is still done, by people who claim not just to be Christians, but to hold some degree of religious authority, that runs directly contrary to the teachings of Christ, and the apostles too while we're at it.
But that's the thing. As a Christian, I can say 'This is the standard they failed, what they did was wrong. Here is God's Law, they have violated it.'
That's not something a materialist can claim, because any morality they proclaim is simply their personal take on the matter, not a logical outflowing of their worldview. And frankly, most western atheists who
do have a decent moral structure, just inherited it from Christian cultural inertia, the parts they didn't want to reject.