The Gods Never Were

   For as long as there have been people, there have been good people able to discern the difference between good and evil, doing good things.  Simmilarly for as long as there have been people, there have also been and evil people able to discern between good and evil doing evil things.      For as long as there will be people, there will be good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. For good people to do evil things without being able to discerned them as such however, that is always the result of religious belief. When a God at the centre of any religion is believed to be perfect and without fault, good people who believe this must believe that everything that God instructs them to do therefore must also be perfect and without fault and by definition, a good thing to do.  CONSIDER for example, a young father taking for the first  time his newly born son into his arms. Try to imagine (or remember) the colideascope of emotions,  the overwhelming unprecidented wond