They may have a conscience, but the moral law they follow is to do whatever seems right to themselves. It is the curse of the Fall.
**They may have a conscience, but the moral law they follow is to do whatever seems right to themselves.**
Not my experience. Many agnostics/atheists I know had religious parents/traditions but did not attend services regularly. IMHO public education and peers successfully inserted questions of faith and confusion in their minds. Nevertheless, decent people do not discard morals while they are seeking answers to greater questions of faith and theism. To suggest they do is self-righteous - and sinful.