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Comment author: thomblake 28 April 2010 06:50:22PM 3 points [-]

But all his reasons and motivations come from God. He could fear not believing in God because he fears not being good.

That's why a lot of atheist organisations exist that promote ideas like "you can be good without God". If people can get over the belief that morality flows only from God, there aren't so many worries about people acting worse for not being religious.

It's kindof silly really. Socrates did a reductio on Divine Command Theory in the Euthyphro, and the Catholic Church has rejected it for related reasons for a long time now.