It is freeing to recognize that I have never sinned and it pissed Christians off when I say this. To clarify, in Christianity sin is not simply “the bad things we do” it is specifically an offense against god. God does not exists so i have never sinned against him.
I’ve been an atheist for for 16 years but it was only recently that I realized this distinction. It short-circuits the guilt based evangelism. It forces the christian to first demonstrate that god exists before they can convince me I have sinned and need to be saved from that sin. And to say the least, they are ill equipped to demonstrate the existence of god.
The thrust of the argument is that sin is a thing assigned by God. If there is no god, there is no sin; there are only moral and immoral acts
I submit that there are also criminal acts (and non criminal,) that are not necessarily moral or immoral. for example, feeding hungry people might be a crime… but it’s far from immoral.
and I suspect that most christians would, at least agree as far as that goes.
Agreed. Just goes to show how laws can be moral or immoral as much as any action can be.