[Stone Mountain]

If there is no God and therefore no reward or punishment because there is no afterlife, how can there be such a thing as right and wrong?

So the only reason theists act morally in this lifetime is because they are performing a cost-benefit analysis?

[Protagoras]

So the only reason theists act morally in this lifetime is because they are performing a cost-benefit analysis?

Best to ask them. That's what I'm trying find out. Why anyone would act in any way not beneficial to themselves if there is no right and wrong is beyond me.

Maybe they do so called "good" things because it makes them feel good or makes others think well of them, which goes back to things beneficial to them.

[GLDNGUN]

So the only reason theists act morally in this lifetime is because they are performing a cost-benefit analysis?

Can't speak for other theists, but that's not Christianity. Salvation is through faith, not works. True Christians aren't trying to do good in order to be saved. True Christians are trying to do good because we ARE saved.

[radicalamericannationalist]

No, but if there is no ultimate source of right and wrong, then anything goes. There's a reason that the bloodiest dictatorships have all been atheistic.